Slight Change in Multi-Fandom Lyric Wheel

[kerravonsen]

Those of you who might have been hesitating in signing up for the Multi-Fandom Lyric Wheel because you have less than three fandoms you write in, hesitate no more; I've changed the limits on the number of fandoms required, because the software I have makes it easier to figure out assignments.

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In a geeky moment

[satan-pingu.livejournal.com]

What software are you using?

Re: In a geeky moment

[kerravonsen]

A perl script I wrote myself, which takes the ficathon data in YAML format, and outputs a directed graph in GraphViz format. I then run one of the graphviz programs over the output, to convert the graph-data into a visual representation (in postscript format) of who can write for whom. Then I just eliminate edges by hand, until I get a graph where everyone is writing for someone, and everyone has someone writing for them.

It makes it a lot easier than juggling bits of paper...

Re: In a geeky moment

[satan-pingu.livejournal.com]

Using graphviz is a nice touch. I once wrote a python script to deal with a similar problem, but without any graphical output: that would have saved me a headache! Doh! Thanks, I shall be mindful of that for the future!

Re: In a geeky moment

[kerravonsen]

You're welcome! 8-)