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Show HN: A tool for creating blackout poetry

https://bobbiec.github.io/blackout-poetry.html
52•bobbiechen•10mo ago

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ray__•10mo ago
This is really cool! Any tips for finding poems hidden in a large block of text?

It reminds me of the poem composed from one of Trump's tweets: "O, the Pelican. so smoothly doth he crest. a wind god!" There are lots of other examples on r/othepelican.

scottmf•10mo ago
Seems like a use case for language models.
justonceokay•10mo ago
No one expected that in the future we would be reading AI generated poetry to cats in strollers.
bobbiechen•10mo ago
(Creator here) It's something I'd like to spend more time on! I didn't have a good time with LLM prompting but I think maybe something deterministic similar to Nutrimatic https://nutrimatic.org/2024/ might produce better results.
quuxplusone•10mo ago
Sounds similar (but not identical) to the task of finding accidental haikus — for which people have totally written bots. For example,

https://botsin.space/@wikipediahaiku

MaxfordAndSons•10mo ago
Sweet! I love erasure (aka blackout) poetry.

If anyone want to see some high quality examples of the form, check out:

- O Mission Repo, by Travis McDonald, an erasure of the 9/11 Comission Report

- A Humument, by Tom Phillips, an erasure of A Human Document, a victorian novel of manners; A Humument is unusual in that each page is beautifully and thematically hand painted over by Philips, not just blacked out or erased as is more typical of the form.

- Radi Os, by Ronald Johnson, an erasure of Paradise Lost

Cthulhu_•10mo ago
And also https://www.reddit.com/r/SpeedOfLobsters/
Rendello•10mo ago
And r/othepelican:

https://old.reddit.com/r/othepelican/comments/86z3zk/o_the_p...

mkremins•10mo ago
Really cool! I also made some blackout poetry tools back in like 2019, maybe of interest… https://mkremins.github.io/blackout/interactive
tekknolagi•10mo ago
Hah, nice. I made this crappy version for a friend to use in a joke: https://bernsteinbear.com/redactor/
Rendello•10mo ago
My first recursive-decent parser was for this Discord bot that let people chain these ridiculous text transformations with pipes like in Unix, so:

> What {you’re refering|uwu|mock} to as {Linux|serif}, is in fact, {GNU/Linux|redact} | clap

Became:

> What <clap> uR <clap> rEfEwiNg <clap> to <clap> as <clap> *Linux*, <clap> is <clap> in <clap> fact, <clap> [REDACTED]

(HN strips all the fun Unicode stuff, so <clap> is the emoji, Linux is in bold serif, and redacted is the black bar.)

Terrible, I know, but such is the nature of the best chat bots. We used to do a lot of CTFs so I always wanted to be able to connect it to CyberChef and be able to use those functions. Nowadays an LLM could do most of it and more, I suppose.

https://github.com/rendello/pipe_bot

mc3301•10mo ago
I thought blackout poetry was when you write poetry while in a blackout state and can't remember it the next day.

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