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After much blasphemous and daemonic experimentation with abominable and vile Dark Practices, I have been able to make contact with the undead mind of H.P. Lovecraft, summoning him from the insane and unspeakable dimensions beyond this realm, and extracting from him these fragments of text that he has written whilst in his wretched timeless, bodiless state. (Clicking will open in a new window.)

Isn’t that cool?

OK, but seriously, though: I’ve been re-reading a number of H.P. Lovecraft stories because of the art project that I’m working on. Lovecraft has a beautiful, elaborate and poetic writing style; but sometimes, when I come across sentences like this one,

There were, in such voyages, incalculable local dangers; as well as that shocking final peril which gibbers unmentionably outside the ordered universe, where no dreams reach; that last amorphous blight of nethermost confusion which blasphemes and bubbles at the centre of all infinity – the boundless daemon sultan Azathoth, whose name no lips dare speak aloud, and who gnaws hungrily in inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond time amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin, monotonous whine of accursed flutes; to which detestable pounding and piping dance slowly, awkwardly, and absurdly the gigantic Ultimate gods, the blind, voiceless, tenebrous, mindless Other gods whose soul and messenger is the crawling chaos Nyarlathotep.

…I just can’t help but think he’s just fucking with people.

I mean, come on.

So I thought to myself: since he has such a distinct vocabulary and style, it probably wouldn’t be that difficult to create an automatic text-generation program that would simulate his writing style!

Thus began my little project with H. P. Lovecraft random text generation!

Random Text Generation

There are two main approaches out there when it comes to random “language-like” text generation. What I mean by “language-like” is streams of text that are intended to sound like something sensible that someone would write, but that are obviously nonsense (over the long term, at least) that was generated by a computer.

1. Word-Transition Probabilities

The first method uses word-transition probabilities. You take whatever source text you want your random text to “sound like” (in this case, the source would be text by H.P. Lovecraft), and you create a table of n-gram frequencies. In other words, you count the number of times that a sequence of n words happens together.

Just to give you a sense of what this looks like, I took the complete text of two short stories by Lovecraft, “Whisperer in the Darkness” and “The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath”, and calculated the frequencies of all of the trigrams (i.e. groups of three words) in the text, and sorted them in decreasing order of frequency.

As you can see, the most commonly occurring group of three words is “the Great Ones” (which should surprise nobody who is a fan of Lovecraft’s work).

Once you have a table like this, you can use it to randomly generate text that follows the same probability distribution for these trigrams over the long term, even though words are selected randomly over the short term.

This is how you do it. First, you pick a trigram to start with. Let’s start with “The Great Ones” just as an example. How do you decide what word comes next? You can find all of the trigrams in the table that begin with the two words “Great Ones”, and see their respective counts.

These are all of your options for the next word. You pick one randomly… but, you weight your decision based on the counts in the original text. So, for example, the chances that the next word after “The Great Ones” is “themselves” should be three times the probability that the next word is “gently.”

Let’s suppose you select the word “wished.” So far, your sentence is “The Great Ones wished.” Your most recent two words are now “Ones wished.” So, you find the list of all trigrams that begin with “Ones wished,” and that will give you your new list of what word might come next. Once again, you use a random number generator to select the next word from that list, but you weight the choice by the total count, so that those trigrams that occurred more often in the original text will have a higher probability of showing up in your random text.

In the long run, this will generate text that has the same overall “feel” of H.P. Lovecraft writing, because it will have the same overall word-transition probabilities.

What does it look like? Try it yourself:

Clicking the above link will open up a page in a new window that will generate pseudo-Lovecraftian text based on this method. You can refresh that window as many times as you want, and it will generate new random text each time. I’ve run it several times, and here is one of my favorites:

It would be much worse; for the first time the great Ones fear, and to the north they traded onyx for the sound of lutes and pipes that stole timid from inner courts where marble fountains bubbled. They had been left behind. It was not sure but that he was a great black doorway which marked olden wrath of the ghouls and night gaunts had left the living room. I had never been sought by any vessel because the Great Ones will prance and jump with antique mirth and forthwith stride after the yak merchants. The great Ones themselves dread them.

Indeed they do, Mr. Lovecraft. Indeed they do.

Of course, there is nothing in this method that guarantees that your sentences will be grammatical. There is nothing that represents grammar structure. Because it is random and based simply on word transition probabilities, it could potentially create a 100 word run-on sentence. (Not that that type of thing is out of the question for real Lovecraft sentences.) Lfo tool vst free download.

If you want to make sure that you actually generate grammatically correct (or at least, reasonable) sentences, then you can use the second method of random text generation.

2. Generative Grammar Rewrite Rules

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The second method uses generative grammar rewrite rules. You analyze different sentences in the text that you want to simulate and examine their grammatical structure. From that, you can figure out what grammar rules are used most often, and you can generate sentences that follow those same rules.

You probably remember sentence diagrams from school. Words can be tagged with their parts of speech, which can then be grouped together into things like noun phrases, verb phrases, and so on. Finally, as you group together each component of the sentence into larger and larger chunks, eventually you get up to the very top level of the full sentence.

As you can see with this example sentence, Lovecraft uses some pretty strange sentence structure

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