Poem #4: Firefighting

Published in Offbeat

Dec 19, 2019

Poem #4: Firefighting
authors
Daniel Holden

Machine learning researcher

Christopher Kerr

Technical writer

Firefighting is a poem written in the Python programming language that generates an ASCII art fire animation. This small poem plays with the size of the human response to large scale destruction. Keywords emerge from the darkness like embers in a blaze.

Poem

image

Output

image

This article is part of Behind the Code, the media for developers, by developers. Discover more articles and videos by visiting Behind the Code!

Want to contribute? Get published!

Follow us on Twitter to stay tuned!

Illustration by Catherine Pearson

Topics discussed