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Pineapple sauce Pancakes.

I’m fond of the Pineapple Sauce Pancake graph: the vertices are English words, and there is an edge from $a$ to $b$ if $ab$ is also an English word (e.g., “pan” and “cake” are English words, and there is an edge from “pan” to “cake” because “pancake” is also an English word).

To play around with this, I wrote a Javascript program, complete with a Web 2.0 logo–which reminds me, I wonder if there is an interpreter for the programming language logo, written in Javascript?

Anyway, what I really wanted to do was to make a wall-sized picture of the Pineapple Graph, but Graphviz isn’t quite able to handle it, but maybe with some tweaking, I’d be able to produce a beautiful poster.

Comment from christine
Time: Saturday, October 21, 2006 3:42:54pm

hey jim! :) i think we are on parallel universes because i am very seriously contemplating making pineapple upside-down ginger cake today! i wish web 2.0 would get a makeover... reflections are SO last season!

Comment from Mike
Time: Sunday, October 8, 2006 10:48:52pm

This is really neat. I used to write nonsensical letters in exactly this style to my friends in high school. It was very stressful.

Comment from k is one cat ยป Visualizing pineapple pancakes.
Time: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 7:04:58pm

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