Making blackout poetry with computers!
summary
A working generator turns any web page into multiple blackout-poetry readings by POS tagging with POS.js and running pattern matchers; a downloadable browser bookmarklet produces several moderately coherent outputs but treats paragraphs independently, so juxtapositions can lie. The pipeline exhaustively searches candidate subsets, encodes grammar constraints with ASP, and surfaces options for human selection. That system proves useful but noisy, so it is being reworked into a mixed-initiative composition tool that narrows choices to three good options and lets a person steer final poems.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:30I really like blackout poetry
- 1:29Blackout poetry as creative subversion
- 3:09Blackout poetry as subtractive procedural generation
- 4:41Fuzzy sequence matching
- 6:20From generation to co-creation
- 8:09Enable users to create by reacting
- 9:23Exhaustively searching poemspace
- 9:38Improving the matching algorithm
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