Microscope-style, Palette-based Generation of Plausible Phrases

The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. — L. Zadeh

The point of Dunmanifestin [is] to inject chaos into humans' cliched ideas or, at least, let them be hunter-gatherers instead of farmers of culture. — B. Christel

Eroton, a glass blowery built on a mountain in Rake. Some say it contains priceless pipes made of pearl. — Dunmanifestin

Immeasurably inspired by RandListGen.

Try It!

1. gem install dunmanifestin
2. dunmanifestin
3. `dunmanifestin -p 'I had a [animal], once. Its name was [name].'

Try dunamnifestin --help for usage:

Options:
        --debug, -d:   Display errors and logging
  --interactive, -i:   Use an interactive command prompt
    --count, -n <i>:   Specify how many lines of output to generate at once
         --copy, -c:   Copies manifestation into your clipboard
    --genre, -g <s>:   Specify a genre by filepath, e.g. '-g lists/scifi/'
                       (default: default)
   --phrase, -p <s>:   Specify a phrase or list, e.g. 'The [animal] sat on the
                       [article]' or '[weapon]'
        --chomp, -h:   remove the trailing newline from the output
     --file, -f <s>:   Read a file as the phrase
         --help, -e:   Show this message

ToDo

[x] Load lists from arbitrary path, instead of Gem source directory [ ] More tests! [ ] Explicitly namespace genres, palettes and swatches