Automated constrained poetry, made from Markov Chains and Project Gutenberg - Boing Boing

From Boing Boing, this on snowball poetry:

Automated constrained poetry, made from Markov Chains and Project Gutenberg - Boing Boing: A "Snowball" is a poem "in which each line is a single word, and each successive word is one letter longer." Nossidge built an automated Snowball generator that uses Markov Chains, pulling text from Project Gutenberg. It's written in C , with code on GitHub. The results are rather beautiful poems (these ones are "mostly Dickens"):

For example and more, follow link.