House of Leaves of Grass
Item
Nature
Titre
House of Leaves of Grass
Créateur.ice
Mark Sample
Résumé
House of Leaves of Grass is a poetry generator that is for all practical purposes boundless.
Except it is not. Boundless, that is.
The number of stanzas (stanza, from the Italian word for 'room') approximates the number of cells in the human body, around 100 trillion. Each stanza is plotted by two coordinates, along an X and Y axis. The coordinates range from 0:0 to 10000000:10000000. To operate the system, you may
move your mouse;
press the spacebar to mark the stanza that is in the center of the screen of that moment, bringing its coordinates into the navigation box at the bottom in order to note them and return to this view;
click your mouse at the right edge of the screen to move right to a new region of texts (to increase the first coordinate); click your mouse at the bottom, left, or top to move similarly in those directions;
tap the arrow keys to move the visible lattice of stanzas up, right, down, or left by a single stanza;
scroll the wheel on your mouse or tap the A and Z keys on the keyboard to zoom in and out;
type a pair of coordinates into the navigation box at the bottom and press enter to move anywhere in the sea of text.
Except it is not. Boundless, that is.
The number of stanzas (stanza, from the Italian word for 'room') approximates the number of cells in the human body, around 100 trillion. Each stanza is plotted by two coordinates, along an X and Y axis. The coordinates range from 0:0 to 10000000:10000000. To operate the system, you may
move your mouse;
press the spacebar to mark the stanza that is in the center of the screen of that moment, bringing its coordinates into the navigation box at the bottom in order to note them and return to this view;
click your mouse at the right edge of the screen to move right to a new region of texts (to increase the first coordinate); click your mouse at the bottom, left, or top to move similarly in those directions;
tap the arrow keys to move the visible lattice of stanzas up, right, down, or left by a single stanza;
scroll the wheel on your mouse or tap the A and Z keys on the keyboard to zoom in and out;
type a pair of coordinates into the navigation box at the bottom and press enter to move anywhere in the sea of text.
Support
Format
Technique
Modalité procédurale
Principe d'organisation
Forme littéraire
Genre discursif
Thématiques
Générateur
Poésie automatique
Date
2013
Rights
Tous droits réservés
Langue
Anglais