INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE. Click '?' marks to generate objects.

'From the Configurable Catalogue of Objects #1' was inspired by the song 'Catalogue of 15 objects and their Titles' from the album Kew.Rhone and by discussions at Amateur Enterprises concerning machines that could generate objects and test their numinosity.

The first in a projected series from the Catalogue, this version enables the 'manufacture' of 50625 different object combinations from a configuration of two connected objects and their respective materials.

Facing the problem of how to represent 'numinous' objects: their shape, materiality and charge without the representation itself influencing any perceived or measured charge that an object may hold, simple, relatively 'open' or neutral forms were used alongside words describing relationships between pairs of objects.

The catalogue makes simple decisions concerning the relationships between objects and their descriptions during object generation: a controlled randomness.

The current version (v1.2) of The Catalogue also makes use of an engine (The Poetry Engine) that uses a limited 'world' model to inform the catalogue's process of interpretation in it's generation of the object titles.

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