‘Grafted trees’ takes quotes about trees from existing works. Each graft is defined by its gardener, who is present with a short biography scraped from Wikipedia. The reader chooses the amount of seasons the graft will grow. A random noun is picked and defined as a 'bud' from which a new branch grows by replacing the word by its definition. The algorithm is inspired by Oulipo's constraint of 'Littérature définitionnelle', invented by Marcel Bénabou in 1966: in a given phrase, one replaces every significant element (noun, adjective, verb, adverb) by one of its definitions in a given dictionary; one reiterates the operation on the newly received phrase, and again.
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Graft a tree for <inputtype="number"name="years"value="3"max="25"min="0"size="4" /> years.<br/><br/>
Graft a tree for <inputtype="number"name="years"value="3"max="25"min="0"size="3" /> years.<br/><br/>
<buttontype="submit">Graft & download</button>
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