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	<h1><a href="index.jsp">Wordsearch Builder</a>: About</h1>
	<p>Wordsearch Builder takes a list of words and places them on a grid in any direction allowing the to cross-over where possible then fills in the remaining empty spaces with semi-random letters.</p>
	<p>Please feel free to use the generated wordsearches for whatever you want including in school classrooms or for personal use.</p>

	<ul>
		<li>Code available on <a href="https://github.com/fooflington/wordsearch">GitHub</a>.</li>
		<li>For more information please contact <a href="mailto:wordsearch@mafoo.org.uk">wordsearch@mafoo.org.uk</a>.</li>
	</ul>
	<h2>Basic algorithm</h2>
	<ol>
		<li>Foreach word
			<ol>
				<li>Pick a direction at random</li>
				<li>Compute possible start points based on word length, direction and grid size</li>
				<li>Begin placing word. If an occupied cell is encountered which contains a different character than would go in for this word, then abort and start this word again.</li>
			</ol>
		</li>
		<li>When all words are placed, infill the remaining cells with random characters weighted by <a href="https://www.math.cornell.edu/~mec/2003-2004/cryptography/subs/frequencies.html">standard English letter frequencies</a></li>
	</ol>
	The abort-and-retry word placement to try 500 times before giving up.
	<h2>Planned features:</h2>
	<ul>
		<li>Save and Publish wordsearches</li>
		<li>Dynamic resizing of grid</li>
		<li>Hide word list</li>
	</ul>

Thanks for trying it out :-)

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updates to about.html 2016-12-19 15:32:26 +00:00			`<h1><a href="index.jsp">Wordsearch Builder</a>: About</h1>`
unified footer stuff 2016-12-22 07:52:15 +00:00			`<p>Wordsearch Builder takes a list of words and places them on a grid in any direction allowing the to cross-over where possible then fills in the remaining empty spaces with semi-random letters.</p>`
			`<p>Please feel free to use the generated wordsearches for whatever you want including in school classrooms or for personal use.</p>`
self-references in documentation 2016-12-19 14:28:10 +00:00
updates to about.html 2016-12-19 15:32:26 +00:00			`<ul>`
			`<li>Code available on <a href="https://github.com/fooflington/wordsearch">GitHub</a>.</li>`
			`<li>For more information please contact <a href="mailto:wordsearch@mafoo.org.uk">wordsearch@mafoo.org.uk</a>.</li>`
			`</ul>`
working web 2016-12-18 20:55:35 +00:00			`<h2>Basic algorithm</h2>`
			`<ol>`
			`<li>Foreach word`
			`<ol>`
			`<li>Pick a direction at random</li>`
			`<li>Compute possible start points based on word length, direction and grid size</li>`
			`<li>Begin placing word. If an occupied cell is encountered which contains a different character than would go in for this word, then abort and start this word again.</li>`
			`</ol>`
			`</li>`
			`<li>When all words are placed, infill the remaining cells with random characters weighted by <a href="https://www.math.cornell.edu/~mec/2003-2004/cryptography/subs/frequencies.html">standard English letter frequencies</a></li>`
			`</ol>`
			`The abort-and-retry word placement to try 500 times before giving up.`
updates to about.html 2016-12-19 15:32:26 +00:00			`<h2>Planned features:</h2>`
			`<ul>`
			`<li>Save and Publish wordsearches</li>`
			`<li>Dynamic resizing of grid</li>`
			`<li>Hide word list</li>`
			`</ul>`
unified footer stuff 2016-12-22 07:52:15 +00:00
			`Thanks for trying it out :-)`

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