A quick update…
It’s kinda funny how time really flies when you’re having fun (or in my case, having a looming unmoveable deadline that’s quickly approaching). I just realised that the last post that I put up was in November last year, even though I can distinctly remember writing it not too long ago… so a very belated Happy New Year shout to all you readers out there.
Anyway, thanks to an inadvertent over-consumption of caffeine during the evening, it’s now almost 2am and I’m still sitting here unable to sleep, so I’m sorting out some wedding stuff. I’ve written some Perl/LaTeX bits and pieces to auto-generate the placecards, and the order-of-service contents. All that’s left now is to actually get the content finalised and then it’s off to the printers.
Five weeks left and counting…
Is your Perl/LaTeX bits implement some sort of mail merge, or does it involve some random number generation? I’m curious…
Yeah, mail merge — I’m sorting out the table placecards
I’ve also thought of writing some app that will automatically work out “optimal” table arrangements, where you can assign weights between two people (positive to put people together, negative to separate them), constraints (e.g. table size) and score each table based on sum of weights between the people assigned to that table. The algorithm works out the some permutation so as to maximise the sum of the scores.
Maybe later …
HAHAHAHA!!! Your comment is soooo funny because I’ve thought of EXACTLY that same thing for wedding seating arrangement. I thought about assigning weights, etc. I’ve thought about doing it for my wedding but never got around to it. I was thinking about whether or not something like this would be possible to sell commercially. In the end, the more I thought about it, the more impractical it seems to have such a system. Hardly anyone would want to fill in all the information needed to come up with an appropriate weight. And in the end, we would be happy with a sub-optimal result if it means that we don’t have to waste time filling in all the relationship information.
btw. ImageMagick is pretty handle for auto generating graphics.