If Van Gogh was on Twitter

This project is about generating texts mimicking Vincent Van Gogh. This is done using a Markov chain based on Van Gogh's letters.

This project consists of two parts:

• Building corpus
  • This is done in get_data.py. The dataset for this project consists of the letters of Vincent Van Gogh from the website http://vangoghletters.org/vg/ . Run this script to scrape the texts of the letters from the website. Alternatively, you can straight away use the corpus in vangogh_letters.txt, which is the output of this script. In this file, each letter is contained on a single line.
• Generating texts
  • This is done in vangogh_tweets.py, assuming that the corpus vangogh_letters.txt has been outputted by get_data.py. This script creates a Markov chain of word transitions in the corpus. Instead of transitions from one word to another word, the transitions used are from a word to word bigrams. Then a sentence is randomly generated using the Markov chain. When a sentence is generated, it must adhere to a predetermined word count. The specified word count is randomly chosen from a list of sentence word counts in the corpus.

Requirements

• beautifulsoup4
• nltk

Sample generated texts

• Thus we’ll see.

• Lord is travelling, still cling to, which would give me you rely on a simple worshipper of the same profound compassion, in paris.

• The emptiness, of the hands of the world.

• I think i discern in it all the light falls — a certain trust me.

• Likely that it will be welcome to have nothing to do with this iron bars of paper or whatever.

• But equally, i know that life – artificial prolongation of this — to you refuse to have a gospel for a year.

• And the deaf, desperate state of painting.

• Be able to give an eternal buddha.

• Going to come here and there be tongues, they shall i say.

• It’s like soapsuds, and unhappy with the process of reproduction.

• So accept this position, and we are not charming towards the end.

• She said that he was a tragedy and so are several accurate biographical details of your journey, i do more trust, more rooted and grey.

• What i might win and pull the chestnuts out of his would both much more beautiful italian portraits or imaginary switzerland.

• I want of something like that.

• The things tying me when i feel sad thing in red and the one sees meadows with haystacks.

• Wish it in mind, you too, because he that followeth me shall manage’.

• Was like you to have someone had injured himself in making something else.

• Truly believe i could handle it all, but with a treasure, but some.

• We see, when i still see it in arles.

• I say another word today to time.

• Wish to come from nature, wrestling with the practical use.

• There i feel my firm intention — i say, they came to be somewhere here, if he holds water.

• Longing to learn from the north, but the form.

• This week i got from you, christus consolator by scheffer, a photo of that i trampled on my acquaintances.

• They shall all know that i won’t retreat to somewhere else.

• How much better than that i would rather be in the palace.

• Honest, manly approach and things.

• I don’t progress.

• It was abandoning me to promise you all my heart.