I been working on an webpage codenamed genhaiku.

It's a meta haiku generator tha

t allows you to process lost bytes into generative poetry artwork.
An haiku is a short form of asian poetry, typically of a heavy sensorial synesth
etic motive and related to the seasons of the year.
The most common form is 3 short sentences long, with a total of 17 words. There
are other forms of haiku, but i'm no expert so i'll just stick with this general
explanation and hope that i haven't said anything too stupid about them.
A couple quick examples to illustrate the concept:
Summer is here
Beach, Icecream, Sun.
I missed Summer
The blossom tree blossoms
Peach tastes peachy
Rain has gone
These aren't the best examples, but they will do for now. And you can google for
some more interesting haikus yourself, right?
I took a liking to this form of poetry and started thinking if wouldn't it be co
ol to be able to collect all forms of writing haikus, then throw to them wordlis
ts of synonyms and antonyms and just generate random haikus until you find a dee
per meaning to life in an haiku that suits your mood. To let yourself go on a jo
urney for unexpected and interesting results instead of waiting for the muse to
enlighten you.
Some people might consider a poetry generator to be somewhat against the concept
of creative writting. But at the same time it opens doors for mistakes that you
would never consider if you were trying to write them the standard way. And i l
ike mistakes. I believe mistakes are part of a creative process on it's own, the
y can work as building blocks for many "artistic philosophies". And not only rel
ated to techniques for breaking free from inspiration blockage, but also connect
ed to "experimental/exploratory artwork currents" such as errorism and generativ
e artwork. Which i'm much into. Plus, this is a free world. So, if you're an hai
ku writer who might believe this "new technology" might be killing your scene: t
oo bad, feel free to ignore it.
Did a short proof of concept of genhaiku in a cyberpunk style with just two form
s defined and a dozen of wordlists prepared. You'll have to look into the code f
or the technical specifics, sorry, this ain't no science paper. And for those wh
o don't know what cyberpunk is, well you'll just have to google it up now won't
you?
Here are a few examples of the generated results i got:
synthetic dellusion
minor wheels with connection
corrosive
hypercubic disorder
the turns sent architecture
forlorn
cybernetic attraction
fundamental architecture
fundamental

These haikus are no best thing since the invention of sliced bread, they might e
ven break quite a handful of traditional haiku rules, barely any mention to seas
on/weather for example. But they are haikus none the less and this was just a pr
oof of concept, so i don't care.
But let me explain further the importance i see in this "technology". What i did
with this rudimentary implementation was transform a problem of writting an hai
ku from a set of gramatical rules and wordlist vocabulary in your head; into a p
roblem of defining interesting forms, interesting wordlists and pressing randomi
ze button enough times until i'm satisfied with a result.
Ofcourse you still have to define the forms and the wordlists yourself, and this
comes with imposing your own set of restrictions. But now you can call mother w
eb for a little assistance. Not just crowdsourcing, but also to either pre-harne
ss vocabulary for your wordlists or copycating interesting gramatical forms and
reuse them with new wordlists.
And ofcourse the quality scope of results will also widen greatly. And to fine t
une your generative haiku you need way to fine tune the parameters: replacing wo
rds in wordlists for example, and quickly altering the form of the haiku, withou
t having to learn how to code a computer program first preferably.
Therefor i set upon the quest of writting an editor, or a generator for the gene
rator if you will. The metagenhaiku. An editor which allows you to easier define
the forms and wordlists. Export and import older works. And share them with the
world.
It's not quite finished yet, but it's in a somewhat functional state already, so
here you go: http://tpolm.org/~ps/recyclebinladen/genhaiku/
It's also worth mentioning that this whole haiku generator is related to another
project idea called Recycle Bin Laden. A digital recycling bin that will consis
t of several "applications" where you can throw your unused bytes and create gen
erative artwork out of them. Since every file in this world can be converted int
o a rather unique checksum, values from that checksum can be used as parameters
for the random seeds in generative algorithms with some degrees of freedom. So y
ou don't get to just turn to zero your wasted bytes, you get to recycle them int
o beautiful artwork to share with your friends and loved ones.
http://tpolm.org/~ps/recyclebinladen/