https://lizadaly.com Portfolio site for Liza Daly, software engineer and procedural digital artist. en Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://lizadaly.com/procedural-art/the-numbers/ https://lizadaly.com/procedural-art/the-numbers/ A generated book containing the numbers one to fifty thousand as extracted from scanned books Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://lizadaly.com/procedural-art/figure-10-in-gold/ https://lizadaly.com/procedural-art/figure-10-in-gold/ An animated digital poem inspired by Charles Demuth's Precisionist painting Sat, 01 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://lizadaly.com/utopian-novels/young-west/ https://lizadaly.com/utopian-novels/young-west/ A Reform rabbi in Boston authored this surprisingly good sequel to Edward Bellamy's classic utopian, in a uniquely colorful series of editions. Sun, 26 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://lizadaly.com/essays/ethical-collaborative-storytelling/ https://lizadaly.com/essays/ethical-collaborative-storytelling/ Developing a set of principles to ensure safety and transparency in generative narrative works. Thu, 01 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://lizadaly.com/procedural-art/a-letter-groove/ https://lizadaly.com/procedural-art/a-letter-groove/ Producing cut-up images in the style of artists' books from rare and interesting manuscripts using IIIF and OCR Tue, 01 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://lizadaly.com/utopian-novels/loma-a-citizen-of-venus/ https://lizadaly.com/utopian-novels/loma-a-citizen-of-venus/ A glowing being from Venus saves the mother of Earth's messiah from drowning in Lake Michigan and lectures the Chicago elite on the virtues of magnetism, the feminine sexual power of outer space, and veganism in this shaggy endorsement of free love and phrenology. Sun, 23 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://lizadaly.com/utopian-novels/freeland/ https://lizadaly.com/utopian-novels/freeland/ How a colonialist utopian treatise led to an absurd attempt at founding the perfect society that ended in failure and violence. Thu, 30 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://lizadaly.com/utopian-novels/ostrich-for-the-defence/ https://lizadaly.com/utopian-novels/ostrich-for-the-defence/ An adventure novel and treatise on economic justice as achievable through the raising of ostriches, all an advertisement for a get-rich-slowly scheme. Fri, 04 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://lizadaly.com/utopian-novels/journeys-to-the-planet-mars/ https://lizadaly.com/utopian-novels/journeys-to-the-planet-mars/ Journeys to the Planet Mars by Sara Weiss—a strangely sincere hoax Wed, 23 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://lizadaly.com/utopian-novels/etidorhpa/ https://lizadaly.com/utopian-novels/etidorhpa/ Etidorhpa by John Uri Lloyd takes the reader on a hallucinogenic journey into the hollow earth. Mon, 24 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://lizadaly.com/utopian-novels/unveiling-a-parallel/ https://lizadaly.com/utopian-novels/unveiling-a-parallel/ One of the most joyful and sly utopian novels of the 19th century was by a pair of Cedar Rapids women Thu, 13 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://lizadaly.com/utopian-novels/her-stories/ https://lizadaly.com/utopian-novels/her-stories/ Utopian novels teach us about the hopes, fears, and prejudices of women before the modern era---and can still surprise us. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://lizadaly.com/procedural-art/a-pickler/ https://lizadaly.com/procedural-art/a-pickler/ A translator and generator to produce text in the style of A Pickle for the Knowing Ones (1802) Mon, 01 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://lizadaly.com/procedural-art/color-problems/ https://lizadaly.com/procedural-art/color-problems/ A generator inspired by Emily Noyes Vanderpoel's 1902 color analysis work Sun, 01 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://lizadaly.com/utopian-novels/arqtiq/ https://lizadaly.com/utopian-novels/arqtiq/ A journey into the history of the Anglo-American West in search of an eccentric, forgotten author of early science fiction. Sat, 20 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://lizadaly.com/interactive-fiction/the-ballroom/ https://lizadaly.com/interactive-fiction/the-ballroom/ A short 'mutable story' by Liza Daly Mon, 01 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://lizadaly.com/essays/why-i-love-national-novel-generation-month/ https://lizadaly.com/essays/why-i-love-national-novel-generation-month/ My favorites from 2017 Fri, 01 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://lizadaly.com/essays/interactive-marginalia/ https://lizadaly.com/essays/interactive-marginalia/ Design and implementation of the annotation interface in Harmonia Fri, 17 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://lizadaly.com/procedural-art/a-physical-book/ https://lizadaly.com/procedural-art/a-physical-book/ Undigitization through physics simulation Wed, 01 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://lizadaly.com/interactive-fiction/harmonia/ https://lizadaly.com/interactive-fiction/harmonia/ About the interactive fiction story "Harmonia" by Liza Daly Sun, 01 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://lizadaly.com/essays/machine-learning-for-everyone/ https://lizadaly.com/essays/machine-learning-for-everyone/ Simple answers to common questions about AI and machine learning Sat, 01 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://lizadaly.com/procedural-art/no-solitude/ https://lizadaly.com/procedural-art/no-solitude/ A computer-generated alliterative poem Sat, 01 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://lizadaly.com/procedural-art/blackout/ https://lizadaly.com/procedural-art/blackout/ Generating blackout poetry with code Tue, 01 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://lizadaly.com/interactive-fiction/stone-harbor/ https://lizadaly.com/interactive-fiction/stone-harbor/ About the interactive fiction story "Stone Harbor" by Liza Daly Sat, 01 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://lizadaly.com/essays/nlp-for-programmers/ https://lizadaly.com/essays/nlp-for-programmers/ A four-part series on NLP for programmers Tue, 01 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://lizadaly.com/essays/replay-and-regret/ https://lizadaly.com/essays/replay-and-regret/ Choosing your own adventure means sometimes choosing wrong Tue, 01 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://lizadaly.com/essays/box-art-brut/ https://lizadaly.com/essays/box-art-brut/ The fertile period of game box art design between 1979 and 1983 Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://lizadaly.com/procedural-art/random-chance/ https://lizadaly.com/procedural-art/random-chance/ Computer-aided surrealism Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 https://lizadaly.com/procedural-art/saga-iii/ https://lizadaly.com/procedural-art/saga-iii/ SAGA III and the reimplementation of the first computer-generated screenplay Sun, 01 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://lizadaly.com/essays/the-art-of-the-bug/ https://lizadaly.com/essays/the-art-of-the-bug/ Failure should be fun Sat, 21 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://lizadaly.com/procedural-art/seraphs/ https://lizadaly.com/procedural-art/seraphs/ A computer-generated play on the Voynich Manuscript Sat, 01 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://lizadaly.com/essays/23-and-me-the-complete-james-bond/ https://lizadaly.com/essays/23-and-me-the-complete-james-bond/ I watched them all so you don't have to. Sun, 01 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000 https://lizadaly.com/essays/the-job-that-games-do/ https://lizadaly.com/essays/the-job-that-games-do/ Why and when we choose to play Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://lizadaly.com/interactive-fiction/first-draft-statement/ https://lizadaly.com/interactive-fiction/first-draft-statement/ Artist statement by Emily Short about the interactive fiction story "First Draft of the Revolution" Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://lizadaly.com/interactive-fiction/first-draft/ https://lizadaly.com/interactive-fiction/first-draft/ An interactive epistolary story by Emily Short and Liza Daly Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000