So here's an idea I had using the shape of a tesseract. It's not cool enough to put in the Weird Ideas section but it may be useful as a brain storming tool. Tesseracts have a variety of definitions, but in this instance I'm using a cube contained in another cube (where each corner of the outer cube connects to the corresponding corner of the inner cube). Then what you do is you have words that are associated with the inner cube and ones that are associated with the outer cube. I put this in someone's mailbox when I was writing on pieces of paper at one point and I believe that I used man-made (but old timey) objects on the corners of the outer cube (such as fan or mask) and then the outer cube would have objects from nature.

So that's the first step. Then you take all of the pairs of values that correspond to edges and all the four pairs that correspond to faces (including the inner faces between the two cubes) and you see if you could come up with a value that corresponds to their union. So fan and mountain might mean "gale" or "match, scarf, forest, sea" could mean the "northern lights" (because it's like a forest fire in the sky, sort of). Then what you do is you see if you can make a collection of cards similar to the tarot which could be used for randomizing decision making or as an art project to see if you could make the northern lights have artifacts of a match or a forest in them. That kind of thing.

You can also automate this process to some extent by using a dictionary online from a list of words to populate the corners, but that's not as fun. One of the things that you can do that's more interesting is to use sentiment analysis to see what combination of words have what sentiment. So let's suppose you randomized a bunch of words and then took all of the faces of the hypercube and ran a sentiment analysis engine to determine which words had various levels corresponding to the levels of the OCEAN or Big Five personality traits. Then you could make a function that would map the levels to one of Kurt Vonneguts story shapes or make an algorithm that would take all possible arrangements of the resulting levels and find the closest possible fit. Then every face would be a chapter and the four words would correspond to what that chapter of the book is about. So that's a weird thing you could do. It was a bit of a one off. I noticed that this shape was in a bunch of marvel comics stuff and I always thought it was a bit weird and so that's the idea I was playing with.