I remember, when I was pursuing my MFA in writing, coming across a robot poet. It was an algorithm that used some rules of syntax and grammar, choosing words randomly, to generate prose and poetry. Racter’s work was published in a book called The Policeman’s Beard is Half-Constructed. Reading such lines as “They have love, but they also have/typewriters. That is interesting,” I realized that robotic artists had the potential to be more talented than human ones, unencumbered by the artifice of ego. In steps SimpSymm, a software for generating beautifully complex shapes for 3D printing.…
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