- Dreadfully Creative Klaxon Xylophone
- Deeply Concerning Knews eXceptor
- Daleks Can be Killed by X-rays
- Don't Care, Keep Xeroxing
- Dainty Cute Kittens are Xenial
...is the news aggregator of the future! Tired of boring world news? Can't get enough programmer humor? Read your Times headlines in xkcd panels!
##Usage
This program requires Python 3 with Pillow and nltk (including the nltk corpus) installed.
Run dckx.py with command line arguments. Said arguments, forming, ostensibly, a headline, will be elucidatingly reinterpreted via XKCD conglomeration. That is, you will be given a superb image pieced together from hand-picked out-of-context singular panels removed from their native comic.
For example, "python dckx.py star wars" could create the above image. The left panel must be part of an xkcd comic that references stars, and the right, one that references wars.
##Preprocessing
In order to run, dckx has a large precollated library of source material. The materials consists of webscraped xkcd graphics, caption text, and executive summaries drawn from explainxkcd.com. The database generation code, in modular form, is in getxkcd.py, parser.py, and contourtest.py.
Program: getxkcd.py
Input: (none)
Output:
image files in /originals/, e.g., dckx/originals/971.png
summary text in /originals/, e.g., dckx/original/971_transcript.txt
list of comic numbers in /originals/index.txt
Program: parser.py
Input: (none)
Output:
image files in /originals/, e.g., dckx/originals/971.png
summary text in /originals/, e.g., dckx/original/971_summary.txt
list of comic numbers in /originals/index.txt
Program: contourtest.py
Requirements: OpenCV
Input: (none)
Output:
image files in /originals/, e.g., dckx/originals/971.png
summary text in /originals/, e.g., dckx/original/971_transcript.txt
list of comic numbers in /originals/index.txt
##Postprocessing
Input is tokenized by dckx.py, then fed into search.py, which uses several techniques to match each token to a proper comic panel. These panels are recombined in an output comic, which is displayed for the user's convenience.
##Authorship
dckx was authored by Annie, Brian, Daniel, Kevin, and Zach during HackTX 2016.
The webcomic xkcd is created by Randall Munroe. It (and all images here originally from xkcd) are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License.