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