Squiggle's Poems

Homage to the famed animator Chuck Jones and the MGM Animation/Visual Arts studio that adapted "The Dot and the Line" into a 10-minute animated short film for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, narrated by Robert Morley. "The Dot and the Line" won the 1965 Academy Award for Animated Short Film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1ZdFUYxlso

To refresh your memory here is a summary per (https://www.labocine.com/films/the-dot-and-the-line-a-romance-in-lower-mathematics)

This is the anguished tale of a sensible straight line who falls in love with a dot. The dot, however, finding the line stiff, dull, and conventional, turns her affections toward a wild and unkempt squiggle. Though dejected, the line was not without determination, and, after much concentration, managed to bend himself, giving rise to shapes so complex he had to letter his sides and angles to keep his place. Before long he was able to express himself in any shape he wished, from helices to spider webs to Paul Klee's little jester. Overwhelmed by the line's geometric contortionistic prowess, the dot realized that what she had seen in the squiggle to be freedom and joy was nothing more than chaos and sloth. Thence, the line and the dot lived "if not happily ever after, at least reasonably so." The story ends with a punning moral: "To the vector belong the spoils."

Through the power of Generative Art I'm giving Squiggle another chance.

The spurned Squiggle has not given up on Dot. He has matured and developed a calligraphy. He uses it to create visual poetry hoping to catch Dot's attention and to rekindle lost love and win her back from Line. Can you feel the yearning desire in his poems?

Each screen reload (or triggered by pressing the space bar) generates a new poem.

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