Simple Name Generator
This was written to serve as an example on how to generate slightly more memorable user names than a random string of letters. It uses a Markov chain to capture word patterns so that names generated are similar in structure to the ones given.
- gen_chain.js shows how to use it
- markov.js is the engine
Building the chain
In order for this to work, you need to feed the engine a list of names to seed it.
incr_chain() is used to do this. When you are finished loading your list of names, call scale_chain()
This will generate fields scaled_init and scaled_rest. These are the only fields used at runtime.
Creating names
- call markov_name()
TODO
- write load/unload functions to save/restore the "scaled_" field names
- remove the 'initial' fields and just use a single list, with ".." to start
Warning
This has not been used in production code. There are probably bugs in there around edge conditions