WordMills Write text articles, poems, compose music, or paint contemporary paintings
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WordMills was developed to be a small test tool which describes how a computer-being can be trained to write text articles, poems, compose music, or paint contemporary paintings. Have you ever dreamed of computers being taught to write a book, compose a music, or create a painting? Consider a situation where a computer can read all the works of Edgar Poe in a few moments, build a model of his style, thus resurrecting him, and start producing more poems on behalf of the author. The time needed to perform the same operation for a human is considerably infinite. Why not resuscitate, by the same means, Bach or Vivaldi to write another "The Four Seasons" masterpiece? The music consists of just seven notes, and a computer, by the same means, can analyze the whole works of Bach, how the notes and pauses correspond to each other etc..., not taking into account the simple drum and base, which are much easier to replicate.A bit of news in some computer magazine, which encouraged me to write this article and code, was about "The Silver Eggheads" by Fritz Leiber, in which the fiction genre is ruled by megalithic publishing houses whose word mills churn out stories by the pound. It reports to P. M. Parker and his Icon Group International, which produces tons of articles in different genres. So far, searching on Google for "wordmills" produced about 60 matches only, generally pointing to the F. Leibner work.First, my thought was to use statistics for the generation of text books, which I have tried to implement here. The same concept, by all means, can be applied to statistical analysis of music (e.g., notes and pauses between them (e.g., midi files are good for that purpose), instead of words and punctuation marks), or paintings, or analyzing image features (color and texture) and their correspondence to each other and raw image data.

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