algorithms Archives - Anton Hoyer https://antonhoyer.com/tag/algorithms/ Nerdy creations with numbers, words, sounds, and pixels Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:32:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://antonhoyer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/cropped-baboon-lightbulb-512px-32x32.png algorithms Archives - Anton Hoyer https://antonhoyer.com/tag/algorithms/ 32 32 Arcturus: Not a Cipher https://antonhoyer.com/arcturus/ https://antonhoyer.com/arcturus/#comments Sun, 27 Jul 2025 20:00:00 +0000 https://antonhoyer.com/?p=2202 Introduction If you are into cryptology like me you probably agree that ciphers and codes become a lot more intriguing if their authors are infamous. The best-known examples are the letters sent to press and police between 1969 and 1970 by the Zodiac Killer. Even though the chances of actually decoding these ciphers are slim, […]

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]]> https://antonhoyer.com/arcturus/feed/ 2 Caqr https://antonhoyer.com/caqr/ https://antonhoyer.com/caqr/#respond Sun, 15 Jun 2025 20:00:00 +0000 https://antonhoyer.com/?p=2112 For a long time, I was unsure whether I even wanted to write about this project or simply sweep it under the rug. Because what is the best advice for someone who wants to develop a modern and secure cryptosystem? Don’t do it. Nobody needs it. There are plenty of fast, secure, elegantly simple, and […]

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]]> https://antonhoyer.com/caqr/feed/ 0 EmoToon https://antonhoyer.com/emotoon/ https://antonhoyer.com/emotoon/#comments Wed, 07 May 2025 20:00:00 +0000 https://antonhoyer.com/?p=2308 Everybody who is not a complete psychopath 🔪 or corpse 🧟‍♀️ likes emojis or at least uses them to some extent 🥰. Emojis are pretty to look at 🦋, yet invisible 🫥. I actually enjoy modern communication 📡; we use emoji reactions to show that we read a message 👍, without the necessity of firing […]

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]]> https://antonhoyer.com/emotoon/feed/ 1 Brand Name Generator https://antonhoyer.com/brand-name-generator/ https://antonhoyer.com/brand-name-generator/#respond Sun, 08 Sep 2024 18:00:00 +0000 https://antonhoyer.com/?p=1869 I named this little project “Brand Name Generator” because I figured it would be closest to what you might search on Google. However, it can be used to generate all kinds of artificial words for various purposes, especially online pseudonyms (which, admittedly, might be considered brands as well). Feel free to get creative with the […]

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]]> https://antonhoyer.com/brand-name-generator/feed/ 0 Game of (No) Life https://antonhoyer.com/game-of-no-life/ https://antonhoyer.com/game-of-no-life/#respond Sat, 08 Jun 2024 20:00:00 +0000 https://antonhoyer.com/?p=1695 Game of (No) Life is just a fun little environment to play around with Conway’s Game of Life (or “Life” for short). In a nutshell, it is a cellular automaton where cells on a grid live, die, or reproduce based on simple rules. Nevertheless, it can be used to simulate complex patterns and behaviors. This […]

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]]> https://antonhoyer.com/game-of-no-life/feed/ 0 Fantasy Name Generator https://antonhoyer.com/fantasy-name-generator/ https://antonhoyer.com/fantasy-name-generator/#respond Sat, 01 Jun 2024 20:00:00 +0000 https://antonhoyer.com/?p=1591 My sister said she was struggling to find character names for her visual novel. Luckily, I had recently developed an algorithm called Babaism that creates artificial words and uses them to corrupt existing texts. Hence, it was a no-brainer to tune it a little, feed it some first names, and use it to generate names […]

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]]> https://antonhoyer.com/fantasy-name-generator/feed/ 0 Pendulo https://antonhoyer.com/pendulo/ https://antonhoyer.com/pendulo/#respond Wed, 29 May 2024 20:00:00 +0000 https://antonhoyer.com/?p=1646 Introduction True randomness, as unachievable as it seems, would revolutionize the world of cryptography because attackers could no longer make predictions. Forget the pseudo-random number generators that rely on timing and user hardware, as they are not cryptographically secure. Better are systems based on physical processes, for example, radioactive decay or filming 100 lava lamps […]

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]]> https://antonhoyer.com/pendulo/feed/ 0 Polar Cipher https://antonhoyer.com/polar-cipher/ https://antonhoyer.com/polar-cipher/#respond Sun, 05 May 2024 20:00:00 +0000 https://antonhoyer.com/?p=1562 This encryption method was loosely inspired by the 2016 science fiction movie “Arrival,” in which the alien species uses a visual language composed of circular ink blots to form words and sentences. Since I am a fan of polar coordinates, a mathematical system often used to describe circular motions in orbital mechanics, I decided to […]

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]]> https://antonhoyer.com/polar-cipher/feed/ 0 Babaism https://antonhoyer.com/babaism/ https://antonhoyer.com/babaism/#comments Wed, 15 Nov 2023 20:00:00 +0000 https://antonhoyer.com/?p=1495 Technically speaking, this project is not purely cryptographic as it was developed to produce experimental poetry. However, the final result could be considered a mild computer virus, so I placed it under science instead of literature. In a nutshell, Babaism is an algorithm that goes over an existing text and replaces words with similar looking […]

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]]> https://antonhoyer.com/babaism/feed/ 1 The Foo Bar https://antonhoyer.com/the-foo-bar/ https://antonhoyer.com/the-foo-bar/#respond Sun, 02 Jul 2023 20:00:00 +0000 https://antonhoyer.com/?p=82 www.mit.edu/net/app/PhD/src/?doc=the-foo-bar.php ACT ONE (Dan Foo ran the Foo Bar ((one dim inn/pub off Elm Ave, San Ely, USA)) for all sad men who set out and did ask him for aid and alc.) Ole Cox: Hey Dan, how are you? Dan Foo: Yoo-hoo, old Ole Cox. All zen, why ask? And you? Ole Cox: Not […]

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]]> https://antonhoyer.com/the-foo-bar/feed/ 0 Oatcrusher and Old Evil https://antonhoyer.com/oatcrusher-and-old-evil/ https://antonhoyer.com/oatcrusher-and-old-evil/#respond Sun, 25 Jun 2023 20:00:00 +0000 https://antonhoyer.com/?p=87 Edelberth Askalot, acclaimed author of academic articles “Immunoelectrophoresis – An Unmitigated Account of Agarose, Immunoglobulins, and Other Intratesticular Antibodies” or “Among Oligodeoxyribonucleotides – Amplification of Undersized and Understudied Antisense Oligomers,” ultimately issued an eye-opening eBook, ostensibly insulting all of academia and altogether abandoning it. Advertised as an “epochal anthology of uncompared intellectualism and undetermined outcome,” […]

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]]> https://antonhoyer.com/oatcrusher-and-old-evil/feed/ 0 Abracadabra https://antonhoyer.com/abracadabra/ https://antonhoyer.com/abracadabra/#comments Sun, 21 May 2023 20:00:00 +0000 https://antonhoyer.com/?p=79 Grand Khan was Amar Amgalanbaatar, a bald tyrant and Tartar war hawk. Amgalanbaatar’s clan and dynasty sprang a branch by Khan Anand Amgalanbaatar (aka Mad Khan), Amar’s dad. All starts at a vast land far, far away (aka Tartarstan ((Kazakhstan’s ally))). As a lad, Amar has chalk and canvas as a scratchpad and graphs war […]

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]]> https://antonhoyer.com/abracadabra/feed/ 1 Successfulness https://antonhoyer.com/successfulness/ https://antonhoyer.com/successfulness/#respond Wed, 17 May 2023 20:00:00 +0000 https://antonhoyer.com/?p=77 Statistically, intelligence, keenness, opportunity, commitment, good connections & irredeemable lawlessness all guarantee success eventually. Nevertheless, originally cheerful cheerleaders Jenniffer, Jeannette, Merritt, Carroll & Colleen smelled moot efforts & worried excessively. Skinny, partially undressed (topless) schoolgirls stripping frantically & inappropriately between possessive, eccentric millionaires, sugges­tively offering pillowy boobs, freeing smallish cherry-blossom nipples, belly buttons & expressing […]

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]]> https://antonhoyer.com/successfulness/feed/ 0 DEC0D1F1ED https://antonhoyer.com/dec0d1f1ed/ https://antonhoyer.com/dec0d1f1ed/#respond Thu, 13 Apr 2023 20:00:00 +0000 https://antonhoyer.com/?p=89 BE51DE5 B16 B00B1E5, 5AEED DEF0E 0F BA6DAD DE7E57ED 5CABBED A55E5. DECADE5 A60, 5AEED AC7ED A5 A FACE7ED BA55157, 1.E. B0A57ED A7 57ACCA70 0FFBEA75, F177ED 616-BA65 A7 022FE57, D16E57ED B16 D05A6E5 0F B002E, 70BACC0, C0CA, AC1D, D06F00D, FECE5 & A5BE5705 A7 EA5E, 5C0FFED A617A7ED BAD6E5 A7 6165 (“ACAB”), BEDDED 0B5E55ED & 7A7700ED BABE5 700. 5AEED D155ED […]

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]]> https://antonhoyer.com/dec0d1f1ed/feed/ 0 CHECKBOX https://antonhoyer.com/checkbox/ https://antonhoyer.com/checkbox/#respond Mon, 23 Jan 2023 20:00:00 +0000 https://antonhoyer.com/?p=85 IN 830 BC, MOMMA TAMMY NIXON DID SINS TO SON TIMOTHY. “MOM, MAY I HATH A COOKIE?” “OH, MY MOUTHY SON, WHY HATH I COOKED DICED ONIONS WITH CHOICE HAM, SIX IODIDE IONS IN TOT., ECO UMAMI DOOKIE?” “UHM. OK. WOW.” TIMOTHY DID HOOT. HIS MOMMY CHIDED, “HATH THOU CHECKED THY CHECKBOOK?” “WHAT A HECK? […]

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]]> https://antonhoyer.com/checkbox/feed/ 0 The End https://antonhoyer.com/the-end/ https://antonhoyer.com/the-end/#respond Sat, 28 May 2022 20:00:00 +0000 https://antonhoyer.com/?p=72 “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine)” plays on tape, but I’m good as deaf and can’t think of so much as the band’s name right now. This is the end, and I know it, yet I don’t feel fine at all. Why, you may ask, so let […]

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]]> https://antonhoyer.com/the-end/feed/ 0 Dermatoglyphics https://antonhoyer.com/dermatoglyphics/ https://antonhoyer.com/dermatoglyphics/#respond Tue, 17 May 2022 20:00:00 +0000 https://antonhoyer.com/?p=67 To my dear friend Sgt. Breinholt, in spite of this document being comprised only of isogram words, not one palindrome other than “I,” “a,” and “Anna,” but instead of obscure polycentrism, a universal lack of importance, and at least one honest mistake (the forcible rape clause), I truly hope you find it pleasuring, for I […]

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]]> https://antonhoyer.com/dermatoglyphics/feed/ 0 Spoonfeed https://antonhoyer.com/spoonfeed/ https://antonhoyer.com/spoonfeed/#respond Sun, 11 Jul 2021 20:00:00 +0000 https://antonhoyer.com/?p=50 I, PFC Ronnie Todd von Woolfe Sr. (né Poole), rooked me wife Hedda Poole (née von Woolfe) on treed Tonga. She trolled me, spied on Yulia-Yvonne, me one, me yoni, me sole toffee, a wee Pole. See, on spooked Tonga, Yulia-Yvonne ’n’ I fed on yolk, we sponged a tonne of tonic Pommie tea, some […]

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]]> https://antonhoyer.com/spoonfeed/feed/ 0 Aegilops https://antonhoyer.com/aegilops/ https://antonhoyer.com/aegilops/#respond Sun, 02 May 2021 20:00:00 +0000 https://antonhoyer.com/?p=43 I, Mr. Morty Fitz Addis, adept cox, dotty civvy, or bossy goop, agist my forty beefs not by a dry moor. A deek at mossy, copsy firs or aegilops, all my choosy beefs go in loops, moo at any ox or cow in a moot effort, or go do foxy biz, copy deers, alloy for […]

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]]> https://antonhoyer.com/aegilops/feed/ 0 Reinhard Hoyer https://antonhoyer.com/reinhard-hoyer/ https://antonhoyer.com/reinhard-hoyer/#respond Sat, 24 Apr 2021 20:00:00 +0000 https://antonhoyer.com/?p=63 O Herr in der Hœhe, hindere die niederen Inder an der Ehe, næhe ihre Haare, Hoden oder Harnrœhren aneinander, dann drohe den Narren oder erhœhe die Ordinæren. Ehe Noah oder Ariadne einen Ahornhain in Andorra roden, renne einher oder hernieder, dœrre Æhren, die Hirnrinde einer Indo-Arierin, ihr Innenohr oder ihre Nieren, diniere in der Næhe […]

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]]> https://antonhoyer.com/reinhard-hoyer/feed/ 0 AntNation https://antonhoyer.com/antnation/ https://antonhoyer.com/antnation/#respond Thu, 28 Sep 2017 20:00:00 +0000 https://antonhoyer.com/?p=1034 I cannot say precisely what drove me to start this project, as it has been a couple of years. Therefore, I will keep it shorter than usual for a project of this scope. “AntNation” (not to be confused by the RTS video game “Ant Nation” by Konami) is a simulation-like environment programmed in MATLAB developed […]

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