Inspired by playing around with attractors (https://github.com/RemyPorter/AttractiveToy), I decided to map that onto a wildly different vector space- language. This is a "fractal" poetry generator, which leaps through vector space to construct its poetry

attractive.py

"""
This uses the chaos-game algorithm to generate a sierpinski-gasket type pattern, but applies that pattern to wordspace.

Each word is a vector (in `-f`ull mode, that's 300 dimensions). Starting with a random position in that space, 
this randomly moves the tracepoint towards one of your targets, based on the `-l`erp distance. Rinse, repeat.

The result is strangely structured, but also grammarless output.

You'll need to pip install gensim and numpy
"""
import gensim.downloader as api
import numpy as np
from random import choice, random
from argparse import ArgumentParser

parser = ArgumentParser("Attractive Poetry Generator")
parser.add_argument("seeds", type=str, help='Quoted list of seed words, like: "zebra interstellar lonely"')
parser.add_argument("n", nargs="?", default=100, type=int, help="number of words to generate")
parser.add_argument("-f", action="store_const", const=True, default=False, help="activate 'full' mode (300 dimensions), which is slower but richer")
parser.add_argument("-l", nargs="?", default=0.5, type=float, help="Lerp distance between vectors")
parser.add_argument("-p", nargs="?", default=0.25, type=float, help="Paragraph split probability")

args = parser.parse_args()

if (args.f):
    SIZE=300 # 300 for real work, 50 for testing
else:
    SIZE=50

LERP = args.l
PARA = 1.0 - args.p

vsm = api.load(f"glove-wiki-gigaword-{SIZE}")

seeds = args.seeds.split()
trace_vec = (np.random.random((SIZE,)) * 2.0 - 1.0).astype(np.float32)
trace_point = choice(vsm.similar_by_vector(trace_vec))

for i in range(args.n):
    target = choice(seeds)
    target_vec = vsm.get_vector(target)
    trace_vec = (target_vec - trace_vec) * LERP + trace_vec
    trace_point = choice(vsm.similar_by_vector(trace_vec))
    print(trace_point[0], end=" ")
    if random() > PARA:
        print(" ")

aware-cactus-kindness.txt

fact ornamental  
compassion saguaro cactus pear saguaro cacti saguaro humility saguaro appreciate aware humility strangers goodness kindness  
cacti mesquite cactuses thoughtfulness kindness saguaro goodness succulents appreciate mesquite mesquite peyote prickly  
pear thoughtfulness appreciate knowing peyote  
cactuses  
know prickly cactus shrubs compassion honesty compassion  
affection saguaro thoughtfulness pear  
affection gentleness  
selflessness generosity empathy succulents prickly obviously mesquite  
generosity honesty kindness always obviously prickly understand compassion pear  
kindness  
appreciate  
saguaro cacti peyote obviously  
obviously humility  
prickly cactus cactuses gentleness kindness  
honesty  
affection knowing understand humility fact affection honesty  
appreciate know prickly  
obviously empathy  
kindness understand  
understood kindness unaware aware  

best-sausage-journey.txt

crossing best  
way bread sausages  
well journeys roast journey trip  
sausages  
arduous trip  
journeys perilous journey meat you  
winning bacon journeys  
good way way  
winning work quest ever  
pork cooked well way ever bacon cheese voyage  
roast cheese cooked  
meat excellent  
time winning cheese best  
gravy favorite  
journey travels cheese journey  
chicken sausage cheese best best cooked sausage voyage  
you time  
time  
good adventure winning best  
travels gravy better chorizo ride one  
roast  
adventure perilous arduous well  
travels way  
better  
life 

correct-horse-battery-staple.txt

racing riding horse ride cavalry electric  
pack battery  
components lithium ingredient  
sheep incorrect battery rechargeable bread repeating rechargeable 
food correct race breeders animal correct  
light  
carriage thoroughbred  
fix batteries  
fix  
charge  
batteries  
supply  
thoroughbred mainstay thoroughbred rode wrong favorite consistent  
wrong horse meat appropriate  
thoroughbred  
horse  
charge batteries  
anti-aircraft recharge  
charge rechargeable thoroughbred dog  
incorrect item fodder  
horses riding correct staple  
incorrect corrected correcting device  
ride variety corrected racing artillery imported ingredient sheep meat supply  

empty-core-battery.txt

# Generated with an -l of 1.5
waiting tenets unused basic emptied lithium-ion core beside  
emptied beside fundamental  
batteries  
lithium values  
recharging  
batteries deserted anti-aircraft values focus core  
cores filled abandoned unused fill vacant  
lithium-ion powered  
sitting  
anti-aircraft competencies lithium principles  
units vacant infantry core empty  
vacant sitting battery  
crowded room  
fill recharge artillery unused emptied fundamental  
emptied leaving fundamental key underlying  
lithium-ion  
vacant focus lithium-ion core fill volt  
lithium  
batteries  
charge  
sitting unused  
filling component  
main component  
emptied  
volt non unused component antiaircraft  
curriculum  
lithium-ion batteries  
underlying filling filled 

infinite-despair-microwave.txt

formula_17 infrared boredom  
despair  
hopelessness microwave universe  
frustration  
microwaves frustration refrigerator  
infrared boredom ovens infinite desperation loneliness  
sorrow hopelessness despair formula_4 finite infinite sorrow  
cosmic desperation anguish radiation  
formula_1  
sadness  
grief despair  
microwave formula_1 oven  
despair endless infinite oven  
formula_4 infinite  
microwave microwaves  
boredom hopelessness sadness formula_3 infinite  
formula_2 limitless frequencies microwave grief formula_2 endless integers  
unbounded finite loneliness oven despair  
antennas misery despair  
microwaves  
ovens  
microwave universe  
unbounded integers  
despair sorrow  
infinite frequency cosmic sadness despair grief sadness despair  
finite loneliness  
ovens  
discrete grief unending  
anguish limitless frequencies  
antennas oven infinite despair sadness antennas  
refrigerator cosmic infrared  
microwave infinite microwave ovens antennas  
frequency formula_1 hopelessness hopelessness unbounded formula_2 electromagnetic microwaves microwave formula_1 desperation formula_1 anguish  
microwave  
formula_2 loneliness sorrow  
microwave  
infrared refrigerator hopelessness anguish  
sorrow  
loneliness microwave refrigerator  
infinite loneliness  
ovens grief infinite endless hopelessness  
antennas formula_1 electromagnetic boredom ovens  
boredom hopelessness sadness  
hopelessness loneliness infinite unbounded discrete anguish 

spitting-oblivion-echoes.txt

mediocrity  
gazing spit abyss disgrace mediocrity  
fade cursing littering echoed reverberating echo rumbling reminiscent  
scratching  
cursing  
disgrace obscurity eternity  
obscurity fade  
chewing  
echoes chewing cursing  
disgrace echoing biting resonated fades consigned obscurity irrelevance faintly  
eternity  
spit reverberating resonated spitting resonates yelling cursing  
shoving butting spit chewing echoing butting butting  
spitting littering echoes echoes mediocrity  
ominous eternity spit cursing abyss obscurity fade spitting spits obscurity  
faint echo  
shadows cursing resonated resonates fades irrelevance spit darkness ominous  
obscurity abyss darkness irrelevance nostalgia littering butting faintly echoes cursing  
reverberating