Sea and Spar Between 

Sea and Spar Between is a vast generative poem, with one stanza for each fish in the ocean.

Written by Nick Montfort and Stephanie Strickland, it takes its words from Emily Dickinson and Moby Dick. The poem is two-dimensional, with the location of each stanza indicated by latitude and longitude. It’s also completely deterministic: the poem is the same every time, even if there’s no hope that you’ll ever read the entire thing.

The result is an ocean of poetry. The the difference between stanzas is like the difference between waves. A repetitionless repetition. 

The code is open source and generously commented, with the explicit goal of inviting you to look under the hood and think about how it works.