Crossword Generator

[Thomas McGrath III]

Mark,

That's the part I cheated at. What I did was since the script was very 
fast in generating I waited until it was done and then checked for 
doubles, if there was a double then I just had it start over. I have 
seen it start over once but most times with my random choices it works 
on the first try.  If I were to finalize this game I would fix that 
part.

I was in a hurry then because I had to create nine games in under a 
week to coincide with my rebuild of the MM Director project in Rev. It 
is a prototype of my designs for a UI with icons for pda's and phones. 
I did create three text based trivia type games and four moving tiles 
based games and the one crossicons game.

I would post the whole project if I could get permission. Right now the 
company got the funding and we are waiting for the lawyers to finish.

I will post a link once I have the permission. It isn't complete but 
does work enough to prototype and is very complicated.

P.S. To get a better random of a list I sort the lines by random the 
number of lines and then filter what was left over into a temp variable 
then do the next few randoms on the new list etc. But not too far 
because the list gets smaller over time then I do a new random sort of 
the num of lines over again.

Random is not very random and usually requires a random of the random 
and then random again to make sure it is random enough.


Random,
Tom


On Jul 28, 2005, at 4:04 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:

> Tom-
>
>> I made an iconic crossword generator that uses icons in sequences
>> instead letters in sequences (as words). The icon sequences 
>> 'represent'
>> words and phrases. Is that close enough???
>>
>> I did a few error checking things to see if the last icon of line 1 is
>> the first icon of line 2 or if the second icon of down 5 is the last
>> icon in 6 across etc. I did cheat though because if there were not
>> enough words to create it then I just had the thing try a whole new
>> generation instead of rearranging the ones I had. Also, I then had to
>> error check to make sure the same sequence was not used twice etc.
>
> That sounds very interesting. Have you posted this somewhere? How are 
> you
> ensuring the same sequence hasn't already been used?
>
> -- 
>  Mark Wieder
>  mwieder at ahsoftware.net
>
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