posts tagged ‘software’
Plots Unlimited
18 September 2011 • out of context
tags: books, quotes, software
“Plots Unlimited, a PC program for screenwriters which generates plot lines out of an internal database of plot elements. (…) With its title alone, Plots Unlimited puts itself into the tradition of encyclopedic combinatory poetics, but does so as a commercial and pragmatic industrial tool. It is naive, and not sarcastic like Eco’s combinatorics. That, though, does not change its implication that much of contemporary movies and television soap operas might be based on its formulas, product of the Plots Unlimited matrix, so-to-speak. (The program is in fact a popular tool among screenwriters.)”
