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Project for Vandy hacks V

Backend

Connect the backend server

Connect the local server to local run through

ssh -R 80:localhost:8000 ssh.localhost.run

Server will be available at https://chenling.localhost.run/api/

• Processing the API call
  • Sentence to words with positional information (Syntax Tree? Preposition of location?) Ying
  • Use word2vec (gensim library) to fetch the closest object from database (Done)
  • Generate a plot (SVG pathes? PNG?) with object arrange in a reasonable way Ying and Laura
  • Return the plot as response Laura

Frontend (Pygame / react.js)

• Pygame
• React.js
  • SVG animation Laura
  • UI design Ling

Major challenges

The spatial arrangement of objects.

Fun things to add

• Bonus SVGs triggered by words like Vanderbilt, Vandy, VH. Ling
• Language support
• Amazon Alexa control
• Style transformation of the final product (https://github.com/lengstrom/fast-style-transfer) Laura
• Octocat + Vandy Hacks design

Maybe useful tutorials

• using-voice-commands-to-control-a-website-with-amazon-echo-alexa
• Embed SVG to React
• React fetch data async
• SpaCY glossary