We've posted about the Internet phenomenon of Garfield Minus Garfield, where the fat orange cat is removed from Jim Davis' comic strip (resulting in a bizarre yet strangely coherent depiction of Jon Arbuckle as a schizophrenic ).
Now meet Garkov by Josh Millard:
It’s a probability driven strip generator that builds Markov tables from transcripts of existing strips and then synthesizes and renders novel text as a new strip. The results are sometimes pretty apt and sometimes deeply weird, and I’m pretty happy with it so far.
(Markov chain is a probabilistic model)
Link - via Metafilter
And agreed, CheeseDuck: most of the generated strips are just plain nonsensical. Pure Markov models are really naive things -- that they can generate readable text at all says more about the structural redundancy of natural language than anything. But it's that weird, fractured insensisibility that I find so charming about the output.
http://joshmillard.com/garkov/savestrip.cgi?strip=14226
Don't get it. Don't care to get it.
Better leave it to Jim Davis
http://joshmillard.com/garkov/showstrip.cgi?strip=32730