Even though each alphabet of grid-aligned characters is randomly generated, the look and feel of every composition is far from random. In addition to choosing between left-to-right/right-to-left/top-to-bottom reading orders and phonetic vs pictographic character sets, the program generates repetition, stanzas, and even its own version of "rhyme". Look closely.
Assignment for: 21W.764 Word Made Digital
Learning Focus: Poetic Structures, Constrained Writing, Text Generation, Procedural Graphics and Animation
Media: Digital Poem, Generative Graphic, Animation, Website
Software: p5.js, JavaScript
Date: April 2017