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November 5, 2015 21:55
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Quick "Library of Babel" book generator for NaNoGenMo, major hat-tip to Borges.
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| <!DOCTYPE html> | |
| <style>article {border:1px solid lightgrey;}</style> | |
| <div id='book'></div> | |
| <script> | |
| var chars = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ., ,."; | |
| var book = 410; | |
| var page = 3200; | |
| String.prototype.shuffle = function () { | |
| var a = this.split(""), | |
| n = a.length; | |
| for(var i = n - 1; i > 0; i--) { | |
| var j = Math.floor(Math.random() * (i + 1)); | |
| var tmp = a[i]; | |
| a[i] = a[j]; | |
| a[j] = tmp; | |
| } | |
| return a.join(""); | |
| } | |
| function create() { | |
| var output = "<h1>BOOK</h1>"; | |
| var chapters = 1; | |
| for (var j = 0; j < book; j++) { | |
| if (Math.round(Math.random() * (page/book)) % 23 === 0 || j == 0) { | |
| if (j !== 0){ | |
| output += "</article>"; | |
| } | |
| output += "<article><h2>CHAPTER " + chapters + "</h2>"; | |
| chapters++; | |
| } | |
| output += "<p>" | |
| for (var i = 0; i < page; i++) { | |
| output += chars.charAt(Math.round(Math.random()*chars.length)); | |
| } | |
| output += "</p>" | |
| } | |
| return output; | |
| } | |
| function write(){ | |
| chars = chars.shuffle(); | |
| var content = create(); | |
| document.getElementById('book').innerHTML = content; | |
| document.getElementsByTagName('h1')[0].innerHTML += " — " + | |
| content.split(' ').length + | |
| " words from charset [" + chars + "]"; | |
| } | |
| write(); | |
| </script> |
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This could be greatly improved with a seedable RNG instead of the default JS one