Silly "utility"

Posted: 5 months ago (2010-02-03 07:21:08 UTC ) / Updated: 5 months ago (2010-02-03 07:23:30 UTC )

I just finished writing Markov, a simple random generator that takes a YAML file for configuration, then generates words/phrases/whatever from it.

Later, I'll integrate it with a repeatable random number API that I'm planning. For now, it's a fun toy. Here's a list of substance names produced by a sample file in the git repository:

Borginine yominium
chiglienerium
Phreebaum's saprinum
red chigroglannum
kepraererium
creinipraz
cyan shocrannum
sloglonyx
blue stopaz
red shoogot
Heterodized creikinum
cruipennium
seiliglinum
kinerium
bageigium
yellow gragrislaz
cratinum
beigrannum
masherbium
green yieglaeyanannum
proustulerium
loyoyugrinum
kouyeipaz
red miesannum
sagachinum
green poshaprony
mieprium
staetum
piyot
blue guthonyx
yellow piglaebannum
Wolfram's goochoprinum
craeserbium
red lierannum
raustapinum
Gibbsian loubinium
yellow prashicraetannum
lalerbium
red tooglannum
grienerium
blue tapronyx
tichinum
green bosethony
yellow mekaz
yigrougreisinum
glaeprislinum
thucrerium
yellow chiyony
thaglunum
grithum
stogreigerbium
Gibbsian glelium
thumegaecrinum
taestinum
baecrerium
priyashonyx
Wolfram's crocruchennium
gaperium
chisennium
crishuyashinum

You can start getting repetitive-looking stuff fairly quickly right now, but that was genuinely created by running "ruby generate.rb -n 50 substance.markov", so it's not too bad.

Don't those sound like great names for stuff you'd have to assemble, as a mad scientist, to bring your twisted creations to a horrid semblance of life?