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<title>About</title>
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<body>
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<h1>Wordsearch Builder: About</h1>
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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.
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Code available on <a href="https://github.com/fooflington/wordsearch">GitHub</a>
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<h2>Basic algorithm</h2>
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<ol>
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<li>Foreach word
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<ol>
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<li>Pick a direction at random</li>
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<li>Compute possible start points based on word length, direction and grid size</li>
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<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>
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</ol>
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</li>
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<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>
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</ol>
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The abort-and-retry word placement to try 500 times before giving up.
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</body>
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</html>
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