wordsearch/war/about.html

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	<title>About</title>
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	<h1>Wordsearch Builder: About</h1>
	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.

	Code available on <a href="https://github.com/fooflington/wordsearch">GitHub</a>
	<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.
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working web 2016-12-18 20:55:35 +00:00			`<html>`
			`<head>`
			`<title>About</title>`
			`</head>`

			`<body>`
			`<h1>Wordsearch Builder: About</h1>`
			`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.`
self-references in documentation 2016-12-19 14:28:10 +00:00
			`Code available on <a href="https://github.com/fooflington/wordsearch">GitHub</a>`
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.`
			`</body>`
self-references in documentation 2016-12-19 14:28:10 +00:00			`</html>`