As I mentioned in the last post, we are gonna make numbers more humane, more personal then they have been for us so far. And there are a few categories which I think, are the first things we focus upon, intentionally or unintentionally in Human Interactions.
There seem to be two levels of personification that we can use for our purpose -
1. Sensual aspects
2. Perceptual aspects
For Synesthetics and furthermore to create a more personal relationship with numbers we should use both the aspects, in fact, as many aspects which we can to be good with Numbers. You know, it's more like leaving no stone unturned)
For the Sensual aspects there are five subcategories - Shape, Smell, Sound, Touch and Taste=)
And as far as the Perceptual aspects are concerned, we can model Color, Name, Gut-Feeling, an associated Alphabet, Place, Gender, Action.
The way we are going to tie it all around in our minds is by using the same Mnemonic techniques that Memory artists have been using for thousands of years; so don't worry too much if it sounds odd. It's meant to be odd and it's battle tested so let's go right ahead.
You need to imagine being on a journey, start anywhere but make sure that it is all very vivid, to the extent that you can literally feel it happening. It doesn't matter whether it is grotesque, sexual, funny, logically impossible; literally anything would be better than making it ordinary.
You can do it, be creative and use all your interests and your memories. For example, if you love playing a guitar or a piano by all means try to nail these pegs around and about a song or if you have been on memorable trips then start from the beginning of those trips and recall how it really was, what impressed you and how much you can recall. Might feel a bit unusual at the beginning but trust me after 5 minutes at most, it would all be vividly clear.
Now start with your journey, imagine meeting the number 0, at a certain place doing something which seems really really odd and then imagine moving towards the number and notice how it looks, what does it remind you off, is it a he or she; a smiling face or a high-browed one.. Focus upon the Sensual as well as the Perceptual aspects of the Number as you approach it; giving it a perfectly memorable personality might not be achieved at the very first try so once you have met all the numbers during the course of your journey, Then start again and add some more features to the number, give it all the more personality the second time around.
Now, once you have given each number a personality, go through the code that I have posted below. No, need to panic, if you don't understand it at the moment. It is quite elementary and I have commented it well, though there is only one iteration at the moment but in coming posts it will grow organically.
The following is another version of the code which "grew-up" from the last one, there is still a lot to be done but for the moment this is our base that we are gonna build further upon.
Try to go through the code, it just looks longer but basically it's the same code repeated for different categories and in essence it is the same as the one in the last post. So, Remember to Break Things Down into Manageable Chunks, always keep this strategy in mind.
There seem to be two levels of personification that we can use for our purpose -
1. Sensual aspects
2. Perceptual aspects
For Synesthetics and furthermore to create a more personal relationship with numbers we should use both the aspects, in fact, as many aspects which we can to be good with Numbers. You know, it's more like leaving no stone unturned)
For the Sensual aspects there are five subcategories - Shape, Smell, Sound, Touch and Taste=)
And as far as the Perceptual aspects are concerned, we can model Color, Name, Gut-Feeling, an associated Alphabet, Place, Gender, Action.
The way we are going to tie it all around in our minds is by using the same Mnemonic techniques that Memory artists have been using for thousands of years; so don't worry too much if it sounds odd. It's meant to be odd and it's battle tested so let's go right ahead.
You need to imagine being on a journey, start anywhere but make sure that it is all very vivid, to the extent that you can literally feel it happening. It doesn't matter whether it is grotesque, sexual, funny, logically impossible; literally anything would be better than making it ordinary.
You can do it, be creative and use all your interests and your memories. For example, if you love playing a guitar or a piano by all means try to nail these pegs around and about a song or if you have been on memorable trips then start from the beginning of those trips and recall how it really was, what impressed you and how much you can recall. Might feel a bit unusual at the beginning but trust me after 5 minutes at most, it would all be vividly clear.
Now start with your journey, imagine meeting the number 0, at a certain place doing something which seems really really odd and then imagine moving towards the number and notice how it looks, what does it remind you off, is it a he or she; a smiling face or a high-browed one.. Focus upon the Sensual as well as the Perceptual aspects of the Number as you approach it; giving it a perfectly memorable personality might not be achieved at the very first try so once you have met all the numbers during the course of your journey, Then start again and add some more features to the number, give it all the more personality the second time around.
Now, once you have given each number a personality, go through the code that I have posted below. No, need to panic, if you don't understand it at the moment. It is quite elementary and I have commented it well, though there is only one iteration at the moment but in coming posts it will grow organically.
The following is another version of the code which "grew-up" from the last one, there is still a lot to be done but for the moment this is our base that we are gonna build further upon.
Try to go through the code, it just looks longer but basically it's the same code repeated for different categories and in essence it is the same as the one in the last post. So, Remember to Break Things Down into Manageable Chunks, always keep this strategy in mind.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 | # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- """ Created on Sat Jun 13 12:37:31 2015 @author: abhinav @version 2 Sensual aspects - Shape, Smell, Sound, Touch and Taste=) Perceptual aspects - Color, Name, Gut-Feeling, an associated Alphabet, Place, Gender, Action. """ class numperson: def __init__(self): self.action = None self.alphabet = None self.color = None self.gender = None self.name = None self.place = None self.shape = None self.smell = None self.sound = None self.taste = None self.texture = None def has_shape(self): self.shape = input(" This number does look an awful lot like : ") def has_smell(self): self.smell = input(" Hey, you smell like : ") def has_sound(self): self.sound = input(" Wow, your voice is really : ") def has_texture(self): self.texture = input(" I can recall that when I touched the number, the skin felt like : ") def has_taste(self): self.taste = input(" Oh, you are so edible, almost like : ") def has_color(self): self.color = input(" Apart from the various shades of grey, which is your favourite colour : ") def has_name(self): self.name = input(" Listen, I namest thou : ") def has_feel(self): self.feel = input(" You just feel so : ") def has_alphabet(self): self.alphabet = input(" Hey, I know of an alphabet which looks a lot like your name : ") def has_place(self): self.place = input(" Fancy, I see you here : ") def has_gender(self): self.gender = input(" Hey, do you cross-dress or something, because you seem to be : ") def has_action(self): self.action = input(" And why are you? : ") def show_info(self): self.shape = input(" This number does look an awful lot like : ") self.smell = input(" Hey, you smell like : ") self.sound = input(" Wow, your voice is really : ") self.texture = input(" I can recall that when I touched the number, the skin felt like : ") self.taste = input(" Oh, you are so edible, almost like : ") self.color = input(" Apart from the various shades of grey, which is your favourite colour : ") self.name = input(" Listen, I namest thou : ") self.feel = input(" You just feel so : ") self.alphabet = input(" Hey, I know of an alphabet which looks a lot like your name : ") self.place = input(" Fancy, I see you here : ") self.gender = input(" Hey, do you cross-dress or something, because you seem to be : ") self.action = input(" And why are you? : ") numlist = [1, 2, 3,] """ Once you have made sure that you are quite comfortable with the personality then go right ahead and give enter the value within range() and add the elements to the numlist. Bada bing, bada boom, all the satements would get executed for those many numbers """ for i in range(3): numlist[i] = numperson numperson.has_shape(numlist[i]) numperson.has_smell(numlist[i]) numperson.has_sound(numlist[i]) numperson.has_texture(numlist[i]) numperson.has_taste(numlist[i]) numperson.has_color(numlist[i]) numperson.has_feel(numlist[i]) numperson.has_alphabet(numlist[i]) numperson.has_place(numlist[i]) numperson.has_gender(numlist[i]) numperson.has_action(numlist[i]) print("the personality elements of the number are : ") numperson.show_info(numlist[i]) """ To access the particular attribute we simply type in the array like numlist[1] and ask for a particular attribute with the following command numlist[1].color or numlist[1].name and we have it """ print("\n the information about the element is as follows ") print(" \nthe color of the number is ", numlist[1].color) print(" \nthe name of the number is ", numlist[1].name) |
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