Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Starfield of Stanzas
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Automatic Invocation
Ritual Options (click to unfold)
Automatic Invocation - Process Overview
Concept. Inspired by Austin Osman Spare's automatic drawing and sigil trance, this engine reframes those methods as an autopoetic text ritual. Hand and line become prompt and sentence; intention is displaced by recursion.
- Enter Trance -> Seed. A random line from the corpus acts as the spontaneous mark, the initial stroke of attention.
- Sigilize. The seed is compressed: lowercased, vowels and punctuation removed, repeated letters deduped. The result is a string of distinct consonants (a "sigil string").
- Expansion. For each sigil letter, the system finds words that start with the same letter from small vocabularies (nouns, verbs, adjectives). The Dissociation slider controls random drops and insertions.
- Autopoetic Loop. Using simple sentence skeletons, it generates k sentences, then feeds that output back as the next prompt. The program writes itself, echoing Spare's aim to bypass deliberate thought.
- Stop Condition - Coherence re-emerges. After each pass, a quick readability score estimates whether sense has formed:
- Balanced sentence length (about 6 to 26 words)
- Average word length near 5 letters
- Presence of common structures (e.g., "The X of Y", "Every X is a Y", "I am the X that...", "Between X and Y")
- Low repetition (varied diction)
- Result. The final text appears below. Treat it as automatic writing in code: a practical echo of Spare's experiments in letting form arise from the subliminal.
Parameters. Sentences per loop sets k. Max loops caps iterations. Dissociation adjusts chaos. Coherence target controls when it stops.
Monday, October 20, 2025
Automatic Threshold
Press Start to begin
Your typing keeps the bars alive. Pause, and they drain. When they cross the red bridge, the poem starts writing back.
How this poem works
- Type to survive: Every keystroke refills your life bar a little. Pausing drains it.
- Phases:
- Above 75% Lucid — your lines pass through unchanged.
- 50%–75% Drift — occasional strange insertions.
- Below 50% Possession — your last words are morphed and new lines appear on their own.
- 0% Sealed — input locks; a closing is written.
- The red bridge on the life bar marks where drift begins. Below it the system intervenes more often.
- Finish: When sealed, copy or download your poem.
Theme: automatic writing as a stamina test — keep writing, or be written.
Sunday, October 19, 2025
The Curse of Babel
original -> translation (lang)
. When all eligible words have fallen, the poem stops.Explain the Curse
Every 1.5 seconds a word speaks in another tongue -- Spanish, French, German, Italian, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, Hindi (transliterated). Red marks the change.
The passage is Genesis 11:1-9 (Babel). Your only control is Play/Pause.
Lindenmayer Grammar Tutorial (Self-supplementing strings that mimic the rate of growth in biological systems)
🌿 L-Systems — Tiny Tutorial
What’s happening?
Parallel rewrite: each symbol expands at once. Map F=forward, +/-=turn, [ ]=branch.
Saturday, October 18, 2025
Unstable Grammar
About Unstable Syntax
What you’re seeing. A poem where grammar refuses to stay put. Each word has a guessed part-of-speech. Over time, nouns tend to verbalize, verbs congeal into nouns, articles dissolve, and punctuation thins. A gentle “compiler glitch” occasionally inserts stray brackets, slashes, or braces—visible artifacts of a language machine misfiring.
How to read / perform it. Let it mutate on its own, or intervene:
- Hover a word to momentarily stabilize it (it outlines).
- Click any word to trigger a small “collapse” that ripples to neighbors.
- Reset remounts the text (use after pasting your own), then press Start.
Controls. Speed changes tick rate. Punct Fade increases the chance that light punctuation disappears. Chaos increases rare vowel-drop and the likelihood of visible “compile” glitches.
What it’s “about.” It stages a tug-of-war between rule and use. Prescriptive marks (articles, punctuation, tidy inflections) keep promising order, while the text insists on becoming something else—stuttering, reclassifying itself, and shedding scaffolding. Meaning emerges as a moving target rather than a fixed sentence.
Accessibility & play. The poem is keyboard friendly: focus the stage and press Enter to burst-mutate a region. Screen readers will hear updates as the text shifts (aria-live polite). For calmer reading, lower Speed and Chaos.
Pro tip: paste a legal brief, a product description, or yesterday’s notes into the box and watch how quickly tone and category slip their leashes.