Hi, everyone!

Yesterday I've made a program that can automatically generate names for characters, places, thing, or really just about anything and I'm putting it up here for you to try out.

You can download it here: http://pic.sempre-vigilans.net/up/namegen.jar

To run it, you need to have Java installed. Get a list of your favourite names (or just use this one I made: http://pic.sempre-vigilans.net/up/swtest.txt ), open the command line (or bash console, or whatever you're using) and run it like this:

java -jar namegen.jar

The similarity parameter is a number that describes how closely do you want the results to resemble your input. Lower values produce strange (and occasionaly funny) results, higher values resemble the input more closely, but will take longer to generate (a lot of duplicates will come up and be discarded - if you overdo it, it may even seem to freeze up). So, for example, if you download the text file I provided into the same directory as the program, you may run it like this:

java -jar namegen.jar swtest.txt 7 10

And you should get a list of names that almost invariably contains "Shmi Skywalker".

So please, try it out and share your results and name lists!