Starfield of Stanzas

Stanza Starfield - More Voices

WASD/Arrows or D-pad. Shift to sprint. Space/Enter to dock, Q to ping. Pulsing parallax stars. No boxes. Fewer collisions.

Seed Micros/sector Mains freq (0..1)

Docked Stanza

x: 0, y: 0 visible: 0 speed: 160 stanzas: 0 micro: 0

How it works

Many stanza forms with per-block width variance; about 20 percent fewer items; rectangle-aware placement; pulsing parallax stars.

Automatic Invocation

Automatic Invocation - after Austin Osman Spare

Principle: Spare's automatic drawing becomes automatic diction. Mechanic: a self-feeding text loop that writes itself until coherence re-emerges.

sigilizeloop x3self-promptstop on coherence

idle

Seed (random line)

Sigil (compressed seed):

Current Loop Output

Final Text (when coherence re-emerges)

Ritual Options (click to unfold)

Sentences per loop 3

Max loops 24

Dissociation (adds chaos) 0.35

Coherence target (stop when >=) 0.62

Notes: "coherence" is a soft score from quick readability checks (structures + avg. word length + sane sentence lengths). Raise the goal for stricter stopping; lower it to end sooner.

Tip: Click Enter Trance, watch Current Loop. When it stops, Final Text is ready; edit and Export.

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.

1. Enter Trance -> Seed. A random line from the corpus acts as the spontaneous mark, the initial stroke of attention.
2. Sigilize. The seed is compressed: lowercased, vowels and punctuation removed, repeated letters deduped. The result is a string of distinct consonants (a "sigil string").
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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)
   When the score meets or exceeds the Coherence Target, the trance concludes.
6. 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.

Automatic Threshold

Automatic Threshold

Start the ritual to see how long you can keep authorship alive.

LIFE BAR 100%

Red bridge mark shows where drift begins; below it, possession ramps up.

100%

Type here to feed the poem

Phase: Waiting

Press Start to read how it works. The drain begins only after you close the Info.

Poem

The ritual is complete. Input is sealed. You can copy or download the final poem.

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.

Blogger-safe, single-file prototype. No audio. No external libraries.

Close

How this poem works

1. Type to survive: Every keystroke refills your life bar a little. Pausing drains it.
2. 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.
3. The red bridge on the life bar marks where drift begins. Below it the system intervenes more often.
4. Finish: When sealed, copy or download your poem.

Theme: automatic writing as a stamina test — keep writing, or be written.

The Curse of Babel

The Curse of Babel

Press Play: every 1.5 s one word shifts tongues. Red = Babel's mark. No other controls.

Mutations: 0

Status: paused

Hover a red word to see 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.

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Lindenmayer Grammar Tutorial (Self-supplementing strings that mimic the rate of growth in biological systems)

🌿 L-Systems — Tiny Tutorial

Axiom Rules (A->AB) F->F+F-F-F+F

Iterations

Forward symbols

Angle (°)

Step (px)

Generations

Visual

What’s happening?

Parallel rewrite: each symbol expands at once. Map F=forward, +/-=turn, [ ]=branch.

Unstable Grammar

Unstable Syntax · grammar that mutates under your feet

Speed Punct Fade Chaos

mutations: 0000

The child walks into the garden. She carries a candle. The air is trembling. A rule promises order; the sentence believes it. I place a comma, and the pause obeys. But rules drift. Nouns remember motion. Verbs grow nouns. Articles slip away. Reading becomes a step into sand that will not hold.

Tip: hover a word to stabilize it briefly; click any word to trigger a local collapse. Paste your own text above and press Reset, then Start.

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.