Comments on: Hex, leet, and constrained alphabets - for me3dia http://www.joshmillard.com/2008/03/01/hex-leet-and-constrained-alphabets-for-me3dia/ The personal blog of Josh Millard Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:13:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Josh Millard http://www.joshmillard.com/2008/03/01/hex-leet-and-constrained-alphabets-for-me3dia/comment-page-1/#comment-24663 Josh Millard Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:10:47 +0000 http://www.joshmillard.com/2008/03/01/hex-leet-and-constrained-alphabets-for-me3dia/#comment-24663 That, sir? High, high nerdity. I think it's too obfuscated for this particular game, but it has some charm to it. That, sir? High, high nerdity. I think it’s too obfuscated for this particular game, but it has some charm to it.

]]> By: DigitalSeraphim http://www.joshmillard.com/2008/03/01/hex-leet-and-constrained-alphabets-for-me3dia/comment-page-1/#comment-24646 DigitalSeraphim Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:00:47 +0000 http://www.joshmillard.com/2008/03/01/hex-leet-and-constrained-alphabets-for-me3dia/#comment-24646 What about three letter words, using the ASCII values for the hex (don't know if these tags are going to work, if they don't can you fix them Josh?)-> cow = #636f77 COW = #434f57 Cow = #436f77 -ds What about three letter words, using the ASCII values for the hex (don’t know if these tags are going to work, if they don’t can you fix them Josh?)->

cow = #636f77
COW = #434f57
Cow = #436f77

-ds

]]> By: Josh Millard http://www.joshmillard.com/2008/03/01/hex-leet-and-constrained-alphabets-for-me3dia/comment-page-1/#comment-24348 Josh Millard Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:51:30 +0000 http://www.joshmillard.com/2008/03/01/hex-leet-and-constrained-alphabets-for-me3dia/#comment-24348 Also, a visualization thought: why not take these words and render them on some sort of color wheel, according to their hex-rgb value? Or, maybe more visually compelling <i>and</i> more abstract: render the non-leet version of the words over colorwheel space, but color the words according to their position and omit the actual colorwheel itself. The words <i>become</i> the (gappy, unevenly distributed) colorwheel. Might be neat to look at. Also also, it could be fun to add another dimension to this by looking at word frequency of these various hex strings. Do a word could thing with font size for each word weighted to commonality in a good-sized corpus, perhaps? You could even figure the "average" color of hex-string words based on the weighting. Also, a visualization thought: why not take these words and render them on some sort of color wheel, according to their hex-rgb value? Or, maybe more visually compelling and more abstract: render the non-leet version of the words over colorwheel space, but color the words according to their position and omit the actual colorwheel itself. The words become the (gappy, unevenly distributed) colorwheel. Might be neat to look at.

Also also, it could be fun to add another dimension to this by looking at word frequency of these various hex strings. Do a word could thing with font size for each word weighted to commonality in a good-sized corpus, perhaps? You could even figure the “average” color of hex-string words based on the weighting.

]]> By: Josh Millard http://www.joshmillard.com/2008/03/01/hex-leet-and-constrained-alphabets-for-me3dia/comment-page-1/#comment-24347 Josh Millard Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:47:41 +0000 http://www.joshmillard.com/2008/03/01/hex-leet-and-constrained-alphabets-for-me3dia/#comment-24347 I was a bit late this party—I only found out about the hexery this morning, <a href="http://metachat.org/index.php/2008/03/01/l33t_text_in_c0l0r" rel="nofollow">via metachat</a>—so credit for prior art is due: - <a href="http://www.kryogenix.org/days/" rel="nofollow">Stuart Langridge</a> dropped a comment into the me3dia.com thread to show off this elegant little bit of shell work: <blockquote>Assuming that i=1, s=5, o=0, we can have: $ egrep -i '^[abcdefiso]{6}$' /usr/share/dict/words | sed 's/s/5/gi;s/o/0/gi;s/i/1/gi'| xargs</blockquote> I'd link to the comment, but there are no permalinks on me3dia.com comments! Secret shame revealed, Mr. Huff. - Then, later yesterday evening, Ned Batchelder posted a nice <a href="http://nedbatchelder.com/text/hexcolors.html" rel="nofollow">wordlist with color coding</a> (which is a rather nice way to present it), for a list that's about the same length as my 'leet' variant above, and about a quarter the size of my 'leeter' list. Ned's table there links to an older post by him of <a href="http://nedbatchelder.com/text/hexwords.html" rel="nofollow">805 hex/leet words of varying lengths</a>, too. I was a bit late this party—I only found out about the hexery this morning, via metachat—so credit for prior art is due:

- Stuart Langridge dropped a comment into the me3dia.com thread to show off this elegant little bit of shell work:

Assuming that i=1, s=5, o=0, we can have:

$ egrep -i ‘^[abcdefiso]{6}$’ /usr/share/dict/words | sed ’s/s/5/gi;s/o/0/gi;s/i/1/gi’| xargs

I’d link to the comment, but there are no permalinks on me3dia.com comments! Secret shame revealed, Mr. Huff.

- Then, later yesterday evening, Ned Batchelder posted a nice wordlist with color coding (which is a rather nice way to present it), for a list that’s about the same length as my ‘leet’ variant above, and about a quarter the size of my ‘leeter’ list.

Ned’s table there links to an older post by him of 805 hex/leet words of varying lengths, too.

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