Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Gibberish.

The gibberish generator provides nonsense text. Given some sample text, say Shakespeare, as input, the computer generates output which is random, but which has the same statistical distribution of characters or combinations of characters.

I entered Ezra Pound's poem The Encounter.

All the while they were talking the new morality. Her eyes explored me. And when I rose to go, her fingers were like the tissue of a Japanese paper napkin.

This came out:

Her eyes explored me. And when I rose to go, her fingers were talking the tissue of a Japanese paper napkin. All the new morality, her fingers were like they were talking the while the while the tissue of a Japanese paper napkin.

[ Gibberish ]