Back in 2015, several months before releasing Expand I returned back to working a regular day job. As I’d previously been teaching at university this return meant that I was now programming full time for someone else, something I hadn’t done before. One of the downsides with programming jobs is that after work you feel less inclined to work on your own personal programming projects. This is a good thing. After sitting inside all day, it’s probably a good idea to get out and do something else.<\/p>\n
Even so I feel inclined to still make stuff so I started playing around with Twitter bots. I started by making the Who’s That Poke’mon bot<\/a> based on the Poke’mon TV show. Then I made three bots that would take a daily quote and display it in ASL<\/a>, Auslan<\/a> and Braille<\/a>. One night I made a small bot called Powerball Bot<\/a> that would randomly pick lottery numbers before the US lotteries. It’s kind of amusing to think that it’ll eventually pick a winning set of numbers.<\/p>\n Recently I made a new bot called How Bots See Art<\/a>. It takes images of pieces from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and describes them using Microsoft’s Computer Vision services. It’s produced some amusing results.<\/p>\n U-shaped vase<\/p>\n A bottle of beer pic.twitter.com\/N0NJkqYDBt<\/a><\/p>\n — How Bots See Art (@HowBotsSeeArt) March 4, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Flight Into Egypt<\/p>\n An old building with graffiti on the wall pic.twitter.com\/aanOivtduk<\/a><\/p>\n — How Bots See Art (@HowBotsSeeArt) February 27, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n I’ll probably continue to make a few more bots in the future. I really love how for such a small amount of work they can produce rather neat results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Back in 2015, several months before releasing Expand I returned back to working a regular day job. As I’d previously been teaching at university this return meant that I was now programming full time for someone else, something I hadn’t done before. One of the downsides with programming jobs is that after work you feel […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjohnson.id.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjohnson.id.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjohnson.id.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjohnson.id.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjohnson.id.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1423"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cjohnson.id.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1427,"href":"https:\/\/cjohnson.id.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions\/1427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjohnson.id.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjohnson.id.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjohnson.id.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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