Overview
Haiku Laureate generates haiku about a particular geographic location.
Haiku Laureate takes a street address, a city name, etc. (anything you could drop into Google maps), and then asks Flickr to find images near that location. It skims through the titles of those images, building a list of words associated with the location. Finally, it spits them back out using the familiar three-line 5-7-5 syllable scheme (and a few other basic rules).
The (intended) result is a haiku specifically for and about the location used to seed the algorithm: The code is supposed to become an on-demand all-occasion minimally-talented poet laureate to the world.
For example, the address “Washington D.C.” yields the following haiku:
the white house jonas
of washington president
and obama tree
A live interactive demo is available below.
Additional notes on process and implementation are available in a related post.
Demo
Components
- Custom software
- Flickr API