Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus Weaves Patents Into Narrative
By Jared Newman
The Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus spins tall tales note through words, but through pictures based on patents. Starting with the text of a best-selling book, the Apparatus parses out key words, then looks up those words in the United States Patent and Trademark Office. When it finds a match — essentially, a link between the words in a book and the words in a patent — the machine begins tracing the drawings f those patents. Most patents link older, related patents, called “prior art,” so the machine then jumps to those patents and begins drawing a new, creating a sequence of related imagery. This raises the inevitable question: How long until the Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus gets patented? [Benjamin Maus via LikeCool]
