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These texts/images were generated by feeding the lyrics from the song "Mother" by Danzig and the poem "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night" by Dylan Thomas into a program called GraphViz.

Graphviz is a graph generator originally created by Stephen North, Emden Gansner, and Phong Vo at Bell Labs over 20 years ago. It has since become a popular tool in the academic community.

Stephen North writes: "The real genesis was that I had been working a little with Jon Sandberg and Dick Lipton on a method of generating graph layout using symmetry, which are sort of theorists graphs and you can find our work online in a 1985 paper in the Symposium on Computational Geometry. Around that time Larry Rowe and Eli Messinger (I think) wrote up a practical tool based on Sugiyama's algorithm, and we noticed their paper and it was immediately obvious how their diagrams would be useful for software engineer and ours weren't. We noticed some ways their implementation of Sugiyama's algorithm could be improved, so we set out to do that."

Try it for yourself.