Show HN: A tool for creating blackout poetry
bobbiec.github.io
bobbiec.github.io
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
https://old.reddit.com/r/othepelican/comments/86z3zk/o_the_p...
> 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.
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.