Mar 16, 2008

/regex art/

i wonder if anyone has thought of creating literary art using regular expressions. i'm thinking of something along the lines of e.e.cummings but with regular expressions as modifiers instead of whitespace. ideally, it would still hold meaning for the casual viewer, while offering up hidden treats for the l33t.

hmm - now, i'm afraid to google it, because i'll find that someone has already stolen my genius idea before i even thought of it.

and yes - i know that examples would be nice, but it is still only in the concept phase. which means that this may not quite be the genius idea that i made it out to be, once i flesh it out a bit.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

You are exactly right about needing an example before you starting calling yourself a freaking genius. Let's see some production, or else this blog entry must be refiled under the "wanking" category.

shreddd said...

Hmm - every time I get an idea I get distracted by lolcats. I keep thinking - I can has cheezbuger?