Real-Time Poetry

The following example borrows from Marinetti and Clifford Pickover, Computers and the Imagination: Visual Adventures Beyond the Edge New York: St. Martin's Press; 1991 (pp. 317-320).

Pickover's semantic schema imposes a logical structure on Marinetti's recipe. But, it is only a grammatical skeleton into which words are inserted at random.

Words are selected randomly from a pre-built dictionary which is categorized according to the gramatical types: adjectives, adverbs, nouns, prepositional phrases and verbs.

Warning: the dictionary is uncensored, however, you may set a filter which restricts the content returned to your browser. You may query the dictionary to add your favorite words and images.

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Each time you press: you will get a different, unique poem.

Please see also Visual Poetry.

Note: If you receive errors from this program, please try the mirror site at UIUC.edu

In principle, a semantic schema can be generated for any given text. We provide a mechanism (see Input... below) for receiving text (a poem or other statement of your choice) and converting it to a semantic schema which will become part of the MathArt Automatic Poetry library of generators. A number of these semantic schemata have been pre-built.

You can execute them at random, below.

View the archive.

Random Schemata

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Warning: By selecting "NC-17" you warrant that you are 18 years of age or older. NC-17

a random semantic schema from the library.

Note: If you receive errors from this program, please try the mirror site at UIUC.edu

Input a Poem

The MathArt language engine will attempt to build a semantic schema of the form of the poem you enter.
Title: Author:

Please select the Language you are using:

Visual Poetry

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(C) 1996 Stewart Dickson mathart (at) emsh . calarts . edu