ICM Class 9

Strings and Text

Text in the Arts

“Cut right through the pages of any book or newsprint… lengthwise for example, and shuffle the columns of text. Put them together at hazard and read the newly constructed message.”

http://www.ubu.com/sound/gysin.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Eliza

• 1966 Joseph Weizenbaum invents Eliza - 1st chatbot- Used very simple scripts for compelling interaction

• Included in EMACS

Racter 1983 A hot and torrid bloom

Which fans wise flames And begs to be redeemed by forces black and strong Will now oppose my naked will And force me into regions of despair

More than iron More than lead More than gold I need electricity I need it more than I need lamb or pork or lettuce or cucumber I need it for my dreams

http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/uncleroger/unclerog.html

http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/pmaf/hypertext/aft/index.html

• Don Waber’s “Strings”• Brian Kim Stefans’ “Dreamlife of letters”

Characters

• What is a character?• ‘a’• ‘1’• ‘@’

Characters

• ‘a’ = 97• ‘1’ = 49• ‘@’ = 64

Characters

• char class maps integers to alphanumeric representations

Strings

• English characters represented by ASCII

Characters

• All characters are unicode

Strings

• Strings are collections of multiple chars: – Cat– Dog– !@#$RAT#@– 123

Strings

• char[] string = {‘c’, ‘a’, ‘t’};

Strings

• String s = “cat”;

Strings

• charAt / indexOf• Length• equals• subString• +

Strings

• Much much more online

Text

• Displaying text

Text

• text(<string>, x, y);

Text

• PFont• textFont(<PFont>)

Text

• To display Unicode text you need the codes

Text

• PFont• textFont(<PFont>)

Files

• loadStrings• printWriter

Files

• loadStrings can take a URL instead of a local file

Directories

• Paths• /Users/heatherdewey-hagborg/…