die.txt is a bio-engineered text editor. As the user types, individual
words spawn outgrowths of alternative meanings and definitions. These
metonyms are sucked from Wordnet, a lexical reference system
developed by Princeton University.

 

Using a metaphor derived from medical research into skin-cancer
simulations, the letter forms are generated by 'cellular growth', each
character having a particular cell-division encoding. The sentences of
newly created metonyms grow 'cancerously' from cells in the original
text.

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Support for this project was kindly provided by the ARHC.