Haiku Geist

[bfollington]

An idea that popped up while reading https://github.com/subconsciousnetwork/subconscious/wiki/magic-circle and considering various ways of putting the user in a free-associative state.

1. Select a note at random with backlinks
2. Walk the link graph two steps to find a string of three interlinked notes
3. Present them together as a "poem" with some kind of background image / artwork (could be selected based on content somehow?)

I have two ideas for the poem's content:

1. the three titles of the notes
2. sequences of words from the notes

(1) is a bit boring but will often make some sense. (2) is going to produce a lot of garbage, need some kind of selection criteria. It might be possible to try and actually match the 5-7-5 syllable pacing, at least roughly.

Some examples from my own notes of Subconscious, manually running the algorithm as outlined above.

[gordonbrander]

I absolutely love this.

Current Tracery Geists are hard-coded. It may be easier to accomplish something like this with the future Noosphere Geists that we are building toward. You could think of these as being like the equivalent of a dynamic server you can follow.

I wonder if there's a way to deliver some of this concept in the short term, however? Let's keep noodling on it.