Compression and Expansion Engine (An Oulipo Poem)

Compression-Expansion Loop

Compression: First letter of each word First letter of each line Every Nth word -> initial N:

Drift: 2 Noise%: 8%

Seed: Use Pantheon Lexicon Keep punctuation Debug

Source Text

Seed (Compression Output)

Language Measure (Expanded Poem)

How the Compression-Expansion Loop Works

Phase 1 (Compression): The source text is reduced to a compact seed by keeping only initials: per word, per line, or every Nth word. The seed is a lossy skeleton of the original flow.

Phase 2 (Expansion): Each seed letter maps to a candidate word from an internal letter->word lexicon. Then the engine walks short synonym chains (Drift) and sprinkles controlled randomness (Noise) via insertions and swaps. The result is a distorted translation: recognizable structure, unfamiliar surface.

Controls: Increase Drift for stranger substitutions. Increase Noise for more broken syntax. Use Pantheon Lexicon biases toward your cosmology (Nullion, Yodabund, Moloch, Mammon, etc.). Seed fixes the RNG so reruns are reproducible; use Reroll to shuffle.

Workflow: 1) Paste or load the demo. 2) Click Compress. 3) Adjust dials. 4) Click Expand. 5) Copy or download your Language Measure.

Watchtower Poem

Watchtowers - Pantheon Edition

Four quarters, eight spirits. Click letters -> lines. Every 4 casts per element drops a stanza. Touch all four -> Seal Creation.

Minimal

Air - Eris x Yodabund (contrary / binding / quarrel)

Sigil:

Aspect: Balanced Left spirit Right spirit

Style: Plain Baroque Tight

World (work-in-progress)

Ctrl+Z undo

Seal of Creation

Bound from four quarters (Eris x Yodabund / Moloch x Mammon / Nehara x Artibund / Gradle x Nullion)

The Tombworld of Urizen

Urizen - Circle Law

Move your mouse: the law-circle chases the pointer. Hold mouse to capture words inside the circle. Captured words stream into Language Measure below.

Captured: 0 - Remaining: 0

Language Measure

the circle that devours difference

Tip: On touch devices, touch and hold to capture. Try Scatter to reshuffle the field.

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Oulipo Lab

Oulipo Lab constraints as engines

Paste a corpus → pick a constraint → generate constrained text (vertical layout, Blogger-safe).

Corpus (source text)

Constraint Lipogram (ban letters) S+N (shift words by N) Snowball (word-length ladder) Beau Présent (letters of a name only) Prisoner’s Constraint (no ascenders/descenders)

Banned letters (e.g. e): Seed (optional): Lines: Words/line:

Notes

• Lipogram: sample words from your corpus excluding any with banned letters.
• S+N: deduped, sorted lexicon from the Corpus only. Each non-stopword → word N steps ahead.
• Snowball: each line uses words of length step (3,4,5,…); nearest-length fallback.
• Beau Présent: keeps only words made from the letters of the given name.
• Prisoner: only letters without ascenders/descenders (lowercase set shown above).

Grammar Mirror

Abstract a poem to grammar (POS) → regenerate a new poem.

Mutation 60%

Freshness 65%

Source Poem — paste or type here

Preserve punctuation Markov tags No repeats per line

Abstracted Grammar (per line)

Generated Poem

Help / Notes

Flow. Tag → Abstract (POS skeletons) → Generate (fill slots from internal pools). Freshness biases against recently used words; “No repeats per line” prevents same word twice in a line.

Grammar passes. Determiner↔noun number, numerals↔noun number, a/an by sound, then punctuation tidy.

Keys: Ctrl/⌘+Enter abstract • Shift+Enter generate

Grammar Mirror — single-file, no libraries. © You.