#Random Collage Generator

This project was conceived of and created during a fall 2013 independent at Hampshire College.

###Log of the process I went through during the independent study:

• Created ruby web crawling script which randomly chooses an image from google images and saves it to an images folder

• Started with a collage function in clojure which would work by loading the randomly chosen google images and peices them together

• Used stackoverflow figure out how to extract the image data stored in quil

• Used stackoverflow to create recursion in the ruby script so that whenever it tries to get an image from a website which doesn't exist it just retries

• Created a random sentance generator which parses text files containing lists of nouns and verbs

• Met with Tomas Helmuth to talk about handling execptions in clojure and creating a function which executes a random list of functions.

• Created a recursive function which would collage images in a way which didn't fit what I had imagined

• Posted on stackoverflow regarding an error I recieve when I run the ruby code as a normal user

• Started writing a function which loads svg graphics into the canvas

• Fixed the error I got with my ruby code, now I can run my webcrawler within my core.clj file.

• Finished the drawprep function which randomly generates the list of functions.

• Added a line which will randomly grab an image from the webcrawler whenever the program is run.

• Started logging some of the interesting results

• Started adding a colorschemes hashmap so that the colors which are randomly picked complement eachother

• Working with other ways to make the randomly generated peices more visually appealing, enclosing the randomly generated sentance within a semi tranparent rectangle for instance. Making it so only one randomly generated sentance happens

• Work more on expression of genes

• Stay away from predesigning

• Met with alec during Ta hours and figured out how to create a workable genome which could be mutated

• Added two hashmaps, one with a list of functions and one linking those functions to their arguments, then in the drawprep function a list of keys is generated which are then associated to the functions and their randomly generated arguments.

• Added figure function, and colors to other functions so that a colorscheme can be selected and the color of things don't clash too harshly

• Fixed the webcrawler which was having a few other issues

• Used try and catch to make it so the code still runs when an image is loaded which has bad image data