Visual
Poetry
Great... paste into the little text box doesn't work (used to I'm sure?).
Works fine in Eclipse last time I touched it.
Oh well, type some words and click the applet,
I will get to fixing it sometime, bleah...
Note 1: The command @@churn now works, randomly re-structuring
the graph and making movement in the visual. Type @@churn at the end of any
"well behaved" input to see.
Note 2: This online version sometimes (mysteriously)
does not update the display. It does not do this in the development environment,
or as a standalone application.
Below are some input scripts to the Visual Poetry java app above.
Copy them into the text field, they run by themselves using the 'double-at' commands.
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@@comment:
Excerpt from Frank O'Hara's poem Mayakovsky, first published in
Meditations in an Emergency. (New York: Grove Press, 1957; 1967)
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@@words
Now I am quietly waiting for
the catastrophe of my personality
to seem beautiful again,
...and interesting, and modern.
The country is grey and
brown and white in trees,
snows and skies of laughter
always diminishing, less funny
not just darker, not just grey.
It may be the coldest day of
the year, what does he think of
that? I mean, what do I? And if I do,
perhaps I am myself again.
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@@comment: A colour wheel...
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The cat sat on the mat, the mouse quietly ate some cheese while
warily looking at
the cat.
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@@comment: Shakespeare quote, not sure from which play.
@@clear #
@@words
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility,
witty without affectation, free without indecency,
learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
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@@comment, works ok with standard transcience parameters #
@@clear #
@@words
a b c a d e f a
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And finally, a quote I have been thinking about, from one of my favourites...
Not really an input file (should work though), I just want to keep it here for now.
Note too.. the 'atat' commands are interactive, so try typing '@@relax 200' into the text box,
etc, should work ok.
...things that have their origin in the imagination or in the
emotions very often take on a form that is ambiguous or uncertain.
It is not possible to attach a single, rational meaning to such
things without destroying the imaginative or emotional ambiguity
or uncertainty that is inherent in them and that is why poets
do not like to explain. That the meanings given by others are
sometimes meanings not intended by the poet or that were
never present in his mind does not impair them as meanings.