Whimsical Forest Field Guide

[SLaGrave]

I want to write a field guide to help you survive a magical, whimsical forest.
Sections on:

• Author's notes
• Table of Contents
• Flora
• Fauna

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Entries will consist of

• a name
• text describing the item
• any warnings about it.

The name will most likely be generated based on a format with specific words pulled from corpuses. The text will likely be markov chain generated (unsure of source). The warnings will periodically added and will most likely be a format filled with specific based on the name and/or key words in the entry.

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Stretch goals: If I complete what I have fast enough and don't want to start another project, I will possibly attempt these extra tasks:

• NLP
• Hook the gen script up to processing or blender or another similar software to generate a few plants for artwork throughout the text.

[pjfpotter]

awesome

[SLaGrave]

Link to repository: https://github.com/SLaGrave/nanogenmo20

[SLaGrave]

Spent quite a bit of time working on this today.

• Got a flora text that I liked from Project Gutenberg
• Split it up into the important parts
• Got a Markov chain up and working and linked to my util functions
• Output converted from .md to .html

Current output can be seen here.

[SLaGrave]

I just added fauna text generation and upped the entry count to meet the word count requirement.

Generated novel can be found here.

Glitch displays a few of the characters strangely, but I wanted it to be an html page, not just a text file...

Word count: ~59k

The count isn't perfect because I only count the words after everything is generated, so some formatting may have gotten in there, so I wanted to over shoot the requirement to make sure I hit the word count.

This was my first time working on a project for NaNoGenMo. I had a lot of fun and there is probably a lot I could do to add to this, but I have a bad habit of starting projects and not finishing them, so I forced myself to not drop this one part of the way through, and I am happy enough with what I have now.