This is the poem that doesn’t end!! or, the poetics of RNG!
summary
Builds an endless browser poem with a context free grammar implemented via tools like Tracery and Rita and a generator that refreshes new lines on demand and on scroll it produces novel outputs reliably. Demonstrates a tiny grammar that yields 15 distinct strings and a larger set that would take over a million years at one per second, contrasts pseudo randomness from Math.random (xorshift128+) with true sources like lava lamps and radioactive decay, tests banana radioactivity and shows the system works as a playable computational poem.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:58Infinite poem with grammar
- 2:21How grammars generate text
- 3:25Context-free grammars
- 4:46Building your own grammars
- 5:47Randomness in poetry
- 6:30History of randomness
- 8:14True randomness sources
- 8:58Computational poetry beyond code
- 9:40Collaborative poems
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