https://github.com/aparrish/linear-lsystem-poetry

a strange textual interface for making poetry with l-systems
https://github.com/aparrish/linear-lsystem-poetry

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a strange textual interface for making poetry with l-systems

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/aparrish/linear-lsystem-poetry
• Owner: aparrish
• License: bsd-2-clause
• Created: 2015-06-12T15:54:36.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2015-06-12T16:02:09.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-02T05:09:29.727Z (3 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 203 KB
• Stars: 15
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
#Linear L-System Poetry

By [Allison Parrish](http://www.decontextualize.com/)

This is a weird interface for making poetry using

[L-Systems](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-system) How it works: Paste in a

source text below, and then write a series of symbols and production rules for

those symbols. As you move the "Depth" slider, the interface recursively

expands the symbols with those production rules, creating a string of

characters. These characters are interpreted as instructions for how to

traverse a source text. (E.g., a P means "print the current word and

move to the next"; a N means "display a new line.") It's sort of like

[drawing an L-System with turtle graphics](http://www.plastaq.com/elsy/)

except, you know, with words instead of pictures.

See it in action [here](http://static.decontextualize.com/lsys/).