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I’m into game design, procgen, and computational creativity, and I make a lot of weird generative art things like this one. It’s on GitHub! You can check it out here. In the future I might try porting it to a browser extension or something else that’s more robust.

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I wanted to make the poetry generator available in as many different browsers as possible, and a bookmarklet seemed like the simplest way to do that.

In a certain sense, then, you can think of this process as turning each individual paragraph on the page into its own tiny poem.

Rewrite the paragraph, blacking out all the words except those that were matched by the chosen matcher.

Discard all the matchers that didn’t find a matching sequence of words, and randomly select one of the remaining matchers (the ones that did).

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Run a number of matchers, each one looking for a series of words that fits a certain valid English sentence structure, over the annotated text.Adjust the part-of-speech annotations, and add on some other annotations, based on a set of additional hand-written rules.Use pos-js to annotate each word with the part of speech (noun, verb, etc) it represents.Split the text up into a series of words.Then, for each paragraph, it performs the following steps: how does it work?įirst, the script locates every paragraph of text (HTML tag) on the current page. Yes, absolutely! If you’d like, consider sharing them in the #blackoutgen hashtag on Twitter or tweeting them at me ( I’m always excited to see the stuff people make with the stuff I’ve made. Blackout poetry to w najprostszym tumaczeniu zabawa w zakrelanie sów na zadrukowanej stronie starej ksiki lub artykuu, dziki czemu powstaje nowy tekst. I was mostly inspired by The Days Left Forebodings and Water, a 2016 NaNoGenMo entry by Liza Daly that makes use of very similar techniques to generate blackout poetry given a source text. Blackout poetry, as an inherently subtractive medium, seemed like a natural subject for my first experiment in this direction. Lately, though, I’ve become more interested in subtractive procedural generation: procgen techniques that begin with a large block of “material” and create new stuff by procedurally carving most of the material away.

A lot of procedural content generation techniques involve taking a small “seed” (e.g.

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