Oct 30, 2009

Word-o-Matic

Make your own Markov Chain generator. Like Norse gods or organic compounds. It works better if you have lots of words. I made one that generates names of Tumblr staff members, but there are too few names to really create anything interesting: it keeps cycling between some, like “Armentain”, “Davidani”, “Marcob”, “Chrice”, “Jaco”, and the input names, unaltered. Tumblr simply has too few employees with too few syllables in their names to make anything interesting. It was the first thing that came to my mind, but I’m sure you can think of something better. Like Biblical names, dinosaurs or US states (my third try, I got “Alas”).

Technical details here, via reddit.

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