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Quick Start

Add some text and then click to have it cut into random pieces.

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Table of Contents

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The Trinary Approach

Transparency

The code simply works with the text strings you enter and chops them into pieces you can drag around.

When you specify a range between two different numbers, we randomly choose a number between those two numbers.

For randomness, Trinary uses the Mersenne Twister ↗︎ pseudorandom number generator. It's seeded using the current time, a high-resolution timer (and where applicable, your statement of intent) combined.

Authenticity

This is my best aproximation of the offline technique.

Privacy

Your text and the result is always private!
(We never save, store, or read them).

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Methods & Options

Cut It Up
Chops up the text you enter.
Copy Text
Copies the result
Min/Max Words
You can set how big the cut up pieces will be.
Spacing Helper
Dividing text into words relies on looking at where the spaces are, so if your original text is badly formatted, you're gonna have a bad time. This option will help fix bad spacing.
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Background & Practice

The cut-up technique is an aleatory literary technique in which a written text is cut up and rearranged to create a new text.

The concept can be traced to at least the Dadaists of the 1920s, but was popularized in the late 1950s and early 1960s by magician William S. Burroughs after Brion Gysin introduced him to the concept at the Beat Hotel. (link).

It's closely related to the fold-in technique.

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Complete Guide: Cut-Up Technique

Basics
  1. Enter a block of text.
  2. Click "Cut It Up" to snip it into separate pieces.
  3. Drag the pieces to rearrange them into a new original text.
Cut It Up
Click this after entering text to cut the text up. Then you can drag to arrange it.
Copy Text
Copy the newly arranged text to your clipboard.
Min Words
The minimum number of words on a cut piece of text.
Max Words
The maximum number of words on a cut piece of text.
Spacing Helper
Helps correct malformed text. Like not thinking (last word of sentence)(puncuation)(no space)(first word of next sentence) is one big word, etc.

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