Computational Text A to Z - NYU ITP

Duban Morales
12/09/2025
Final

“Design” voice chat bot 


User message
    -> retrieval from design_memory.json
      -> Ollama (local LLM) for reply text
        -> OpenAI TTS for voice
          -> JSON back to browser
            -> chat response text + audio playback + new painting



transferred the bot to a web application from discord 

Duban Morales
Week 10
11/11/2025

Final Proposal 




“ I'm less interested in becoming a single thing – that’s the trap of fixed identities. Instead, I’m driven by the process of becoming. “   - @TestingBot_DM

“ I want to be a catalytic system – a framework for generating possibilities, not solutions. “ - @TestingBot_DM

The corpus for this bot was constructed from readings assigned during my undergraduate studies. Learning about tokenization led me to think of the model as a kind of Frankenstein assemblage, and I wanted to see how well it could interpret different “radical minds” or sources from the architecture and design world.

All of these writers and designers are “radical” in the sense that they challenge dominant architectural norms whether by embracing technology and media (Moholy-Nagy, Terzidis), proposing speculative or pop-driven futures (Archigram, Dunne & Raby, Banham), or revaluing complexity and contradiction against modernist purity (Venturi).






Duban Morales
Week 09
Date 11/04/2025


On mention, the bot embeds the user’s message (OpenAI), retrieves context from design_memory.json, and generates a reply in a consistent DesignBot voice via Ollama (Gemma3:4b). It’s moved from hard-coded templates to 
context aware responses grounded in Moholy-Nagy, Archigram, Dunne & Raby, and Terzidis.

    Sources shaping the voice:
         László Moholy-Nagy — Vision in Motion; The New Vision
        Archigram — Plug-In City, Instant City (Archigram magazines)
        Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby — Speculative Everything
        Kostas Terzidis — Expressive Form (2003); Algorithmic Architecture (2006)
        Robert Venturi — Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (“Gentle Manifesto”)
        Reyner Banham — “A Clip-On Architecture” (and related essays)







Duban Morales
Week 07
Date 10/07/2025

DISCORD BOT

array of hardcoded elements - themes, lenses, tensions, artifacts, forms 

the bot builds a sentence by combining a few random elements:

`Explore ${pick(themes)} through ${pick(lenses)}, highlighting the tension between ${pick(tensions)}. It could take form as ${pick(forms)} like a ${pick(artifacts)}.

currently doesn't remember the conversation , nor does it call any AI models

performing a structured collage. Moving forward I would want this bot to generate speculative design images 

test prompts -

@TestingBot_DM hello  
@TestingBot_DM speculative design about dreams  
@TestingBot_DM can you speculate about digital waste  
@TestingBot_DM critique this speculative oracle  
@TestingBot_DM what do you think about design  
@TestingBot_DM give me a speculative idea  
@TestingBot_DM speculative concept about food  
@TestingBot_DM can you speculate about mobility  
@TestingBot_DM i need an idea about AI ethics  
@TestingBot_DM can you critique my concept  
@TestingBot_DM critique this idea about repair cultures  





Duban Morales
Week 04
Date 09/23/2025

Language Models

Corpus Creation
I combined three texts that explore design, ethics, and speculation:
Bauhaus Manifesto
Speculative Everything
First Things First 2020 Manifesto
These became the raw material a shared “language” of design ideologies 
from different moments in history.

Markov Text Generation
Using RiTa.js, I built a Markov chain that blends the three manifestos into 
new hybrid sentences.

Drawing as Interpretation
Each part of speech was mapped to a drawing behavior in p5.js:
Noun → a wall or line segment
Verb → a turn or change in direction
Adjective → a texture overlay
Adverb → a curve or flow gesture
Preposition → a connection
Conjunction → a branch or split in space

The result is a generative system where each word acts like a building 
instruction.
The sentence constructs its own architectural diagram.


https://editor.p5js.org/Duban_Morales/sketches/8MhXb04Ex








Duban Morales
Week 03
Date 09/16/2025

APIs and Libraries

A generator that builds spaces out of words. Each sentence starts with:

“You enter a room built from material, decorated with sculpture material.”

First Attempts

At the start, things didn’t go smoothly. Instead of getting words like “adobe” or “timber,” I was only getting numbers between 0 and 1. It turned out that the random() function was just giving me a number because the variables I thought held the data were actually empty. p5.js was doing exactly what it should but, because my JSON keys didn’t line up with what I was calling in the code, nothing was there to pick from. Once I fixed the keys, I finally started seeing proper words.
I also tried to use RiTa.js to analyze the sentences tagging parts of speech, breaking down syllables, or finding rhymes. I ran into a lot of issues there: some builds of RiTa didn’t load at all, and others threw errors like “not a function” or “not a constructor.” Even though I couldn’t get it fully working this time, it gave me a better sense of how different versions of a library expose different functions.

Generates a new sentence with each mouse press on canvas 

https://editor.p5js.org/Duban_Morales/sketches/c0QpKnkl2


updated sketch and found the problem , i was using Rita.getPos() rather than Rita.pos() , the script now is able to find synonyms for the materials 
Duban Morales
Week 02
Date 09/09/2025

Word Counting










  

Duban Morales
Week 01
Date 09/02/2025

Introduction



Source: Fine Homebuilding, Issue No. 44 (Feb/March 1988)

Method: Table of contents → numbers → word positions in the Letters section.Use the numbers listed in the Table of Contents (pages 4, 10, 24, 82 … 100).

For each number, count words in sequence from the Letters section.

Example: Page 4 → pick the 4th word in the Letters section. (Gardens)
Page 10 → pick the 10th word, and so on. (Homebuilding)
24  → (fine)Chronological
Gardens Homebuilding fine plumbing receive months that switch issue press give about in issue Paul plumbing and in McMahon looking.

Reverse
Torben Chicago Florida parts from catalog electrical was inc. supplier to excellence and have faucets offers also and breakers bulbs