First technology demo

Before I started coding this - in fact before I thought that it was a good candidate for Future Technology #1 experimentation - I experimented with the idea on a couple of bits of paper.

And now I have recreated those two bits of paper inside the prototype:

And the words here were just something I knocked up in an hour.  I didn't write four poems and cut them in half, I wrote 8 halves (4 left, 4 right) and checked as I wrote them that they could go together in any order.

I feel this validates the principle pretty well however, I wrote 8 half poems but got 16 possible whole poems as a result.  That's not a huge return on the investment, but the possibilities are literally exponential.  Not that sheer number of potential outcomes is the point, but we need a field that is large enough, and rich enough, that the user can explore it and find some beautiful nuggets buried in there.

((Incidentally, this makes me feel strongly that some "social" aspect to this would be very valuable, some mechanism where people can share what they find and go "Look, look what I found!" Prompting others to go "Yes, great!  But look what happens when I add this..."  But this is an advanced topic and not something to get into quite yet...))