46 phrases over 64 characters

46 phrases over 64 characters

The greedy self-referential parse of 64 characters of English-like. Each phrase is the longest piece of what remains that has already appeared starting earlier in the text; the arc shows where it was copied from. 17 of the 46 phrases are single characters that had not appeared before and are stored as themselves. z counts the arcs and the literals together, and it is what an index built on this parse is proportional to.

Drawn at 700 × 186, wide on the page. Everything above is what phrase-parse returns with no arguments; the caption is the generator's own, computed from the numbers in the drawing rather than written beside it.

7 essays call phrase-parse. The drawing above is what it returns with no arguments at all; every call below passes it something, because a placement that passes nothing draws whichever member of the family the generator happens to default to rather than the one its essay argues about — which is what optcheck and figfill exist to catch.