The Fabled Deck of Fate

The Fabled Deck of Fate

Created by David Melhart and Antonios Liapis.

Live version: https://deck-of-fate.davidmelhart.com/

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The Fable Deck of Fate is a procedural generator of creepy or psychedelic story-hooks based on Magic: The Gathering cards. 

The card descriptions are based on pre-trained ResNet50* predictions, augmented by labels generated based on the colour palette, brightness, and Shannon entropy of the image as well as relevant words pulled from ConceptNet. 

To keep some consistency the words from ConceptNet are sorted and weighted based on their distance from the core labels using Word2Vec. During generation words are pulled for the "canon" of the story and a "threat". These words are vetted again based on their semantic similarity to the type of the card (the metric is maximized for the "canon" and minimized for the "threat").

The whole description is strung together using Tracery.

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* as is implemented in Keras.

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