Showing posts with label sort. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sort. Show all posts

Thursday, 15 October 2015

Sorting algorithms and editing

Yes it has all been quiet. An editing kind of quiet.

Lots going on but not much to see. As a result I have enjoyed looking at the visualisation of sorts by Timo Bingmann.



Audibilisation too!

Sorting algorithms have a weird fascination for me and encourage me to think of a kind of mechanisation of editing.

So imagine some different passes:

  • checking for duplicate words - are they good/bad/emphatic/a mistake
  • internal rhyme - wow! just enjoy it...maybe turn it up a bit here and there
  • rhythm - check?
  • rhyme - scheme? does it have one? should it?
  • stanza? signs of dehiscence? what happens if I break the normal big fat strand of verse into boxes of say 3 lines, 6 lines. 4 lines...oh feedback into rhyme scheme and recheck...
  • vocabulary - what it is saying about the poem?
  • and so on...

So that is what I am up to right now,

You can find the sorting algorithms here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPRA0W1kECg&feature=youtu.be