This project is a children's book generated by walking through related nouns and verbs in ConceptNet, with illustrations from The Noun Project. The structure is based on the classic nursery rhyme, "The House that Jack built," with quite a few permutations.
The core idea is relatively simple, even though it took me a few weeks of trial and error to implement it: the code builds chains of concepts of whatever length that end in "house". Once I figured out how to generate those chains, I found that 7 chains of 55 concepts each (chapters) would get me over 50,000 words, so then I had to figure out how to illustrate it.
If for some reason you want to run this yourself, you'll need quite a few Python modules:
I think most are pretty standard, but a few that are not may be requests, textblob, pattern.en, glob, flickrapi, weasyprint, and pycorpora.
You'll also need a file called "credentials" formatted like this:
flickr_key = {yours goes here}
flickr_secret = {yours goes here}
noun_key = {yours goes here}
noun_secret = {yours goes here}
And you'll need these directories for all of the page and pdf generation:
pages/icons/images/pdfs/
Finally, this uses Fred Weinhaus's "watercolor" script for ImageMagick to make the illustrations. Put this in the same directory as the Python script.
The Smaller Sample is 7 chapters with 5 concepts each. It's about 15mb after optimizing it in Adobe Acrobat.
The Complete Version, titled The several houses of Brian, Spencer, Liam, Victoria, Brayden, Vincent, and Alex is 7 chapters with 55 concepts each. It's 800 pages long, but only 23mb after optimization. I generated this on Saturday, December 16 2017, and it took about 1 hour to complete. The main text comes to 49,799, but that doesn't count the chapter titles, front matter, or end credits, so I'm sure it's over 50K all together.
Here are some screenshots.
