Getting acquainted with imaginarium

Click the code below and press Run:

# Try: imagine 10 cats
A cat is a kind of person.
Persian, tabby, Siamese, manx, Chartreux, and Maine coon are kinds of cat.
Cats have an age between 1 and 20.
Cats are male or female.
A male cat has a name from male cat names
A female cat has a name from female cat names
Cats are long-haired or short-haired.
Cats can be big or small.
Cats can be cuddly or haughty.
A cat can be staid or crazy.
The plural of Chartreux is Chartreux.
The plural of Siamese is Siamese.
Chartreux are grey.
Siamese are grey.
Persians are long-haired.
Siamese are short-haired.
Maine coons are large.
Cats are black, white, grey, or ginger.

Cats can love one other cat.
Cats can hate one other cat.
Love and hate are mutually exclusive.

This shows you a bunch of randomly generated cats as well as the randomly generated relationships between them.

Generating things

Try changing the command to each of these and then pressing Run again:

• imagine a cat
• imagine 10 cats
• imagine 10 haughty cats
• imagine 10 grey tabbies

The concept graph

Try pressing the Show Ontology button.  This will generate a graph (network) showing all the concepts from the code, together with (most of) their relationships.  The concept graph is a good way of debugging things if the system isn't generating what you expect.  For example, if you see a concept sitting by itself without any relationships to anything else, that's usually a bug, such as a typo.  If you mouse over a concept, it also lets you see its different forms (e.g. plural and singular), and other information that can help you understand where Imaginarium is getting confused.

Making D&D cats

Now let's add some information.  Add this to the code:

magic user, fighter, and cleric are kinds of player character
Feel free to alter this as you like

And then try running:

imagine a player character

Types and subtypes

Now add:

magic users can be dark or light
necromancer, wizard, and thaumaturge are kinds of magic user
necromancers are always dark

Feel free to alter this as you like.  Then try:

imagine 10 magic users

Mixing and matching

Now you can:

imagine player character cats
imagine fighter cats
imagine magic user cats
imagine cat magic users
imagine a persian necromancer