On Shape Poems and the Shape of Poems
         A Computational Creativity Perspective


                       Simon COLTON
               Computational Creativity Group
       Department of Computing, Imperial College, London
              ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk; sgc@doc.ic.ac.uk




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Figure 1. Two poems produced by The Painting Fool.




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Figure 2. Artwork produced by The Painting Fool where an individual shape is highlighted by text.




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Figure 3. Artwork produced by The Painting Fool with a set of text shapes producing a portrait.




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Figure 4. The Malevolent Ghost shape poem by The Painting Fool. Sentences from Twitter.




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