/*names in chinese follow a specific order:

1. names are read left to right

2. the first character is the surname 

3. the second and third character make up the "first name" or personal name 

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*/

//array to hold last character for male names 

let last_char_m = []; 

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//array to hold middle character for male names

let middle_char_m = ['党', '国', '毛']; 

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//array to hold middle character for female names

let last_char_f = []; 

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//array to hold middle character for female names

let middle_char_f = ['党', '国', '毛']; 

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//array to hold first character (surname)

let first_char = []; 

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//var to decide the gender of name 

let gender; 

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function preload() {

  //preload all files 

  province_outfile = loadStrings('province_names.txt');

  top_50_outfile = loadStrings('top50char.year.csv'); 

  givenname_outfile = loadStrings('givenname.csv'); 

}

​

function setup() {  

  createCanvas(450, 600); 

  //DATA FOR FIRST CHARACTER (least personalized)

  //get the first character of all cities in Guangdong province 

  for (let i = 0; i < province_outfile.length; i++) { 

    first_char.push(province_outfile[i][0]); 

  }

​

  //DATA FOR MIDDLE CHARACTER (second-most personalized)

  //get the top characters for male first names from 1950-2000

  for (let i = 1; i < top_50_outfile.length; i++){     

    //read each row individually 

    current_row = split(top_50_outfile[i], ",");

    //search through each row and only push the elements which correspond to names into the middle_char_m array 

    for (el = 0; el < current_row.length; el++) {

      //indexes for male character

      if ((el >= 13) && (el <=18)){ 

        middle_char_m.push(current_row[el]); 

      }

      //indexes for female character 

      if ((el >= 25) && (el <=30)) { 

        middle_char_f.push(current_row[el]); 

      }

    }

  }

  //DATA FOR LAST CHARACTER (most personalized)

  for (let i = 0; i < givenname_outfile.length; i++) { 

    //read each row 

    current_row = split(givenname_outfile[i], ","); 

    //determine whether it is male or female name based on     number of occurence 

    if (current_row[3] > current_row[4]) { 

      last_char_m.push(current_row[0]); //push to male

    }

    else { 

      last_char_f.push(current_row[0]); //push to female 

    }

  } 

​

}

​

​

​

function draw() {

  // background(241, 233, 212);

  background(255, 255,255); 

  //frameRate(1); 

  //the font 

  noStroke(); 

  textFont('Noto Serif SC');

  textSize(20); 

  fill(0); 

  //drawing the grid on the paper 

  for (let i = 20; i < height; i +=20) { 

    stroke(0); 

    strokeWeight(0.2); 

    line(0, i, width, i); 

  }

  for (let i = 90; i<width; i+=90) { 

    stroke(0); 

    strokeWeight(0.2); 

    line(i, 0, i, height); 

  }

  let results = []; 

  for (let i = 0; i < 155; i++ ){ 

    //decide gender of the name to be generated 

    gender = male_or_female();

    //randomly get a surname

    surname = first_char[int(random(first_char.length))];

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    //if name is female, pull characters from f arrays

    if (gender == 'f') {

      middle = middle_char_f[int(random(middle_char_f.length))]; 

      last = last_char_f[int(random(last_char_f.length))]; 

      personal_name = middle+last; 

      gender= '(女)';  

    } 

​

    //otherwise pull characters from m arrays 

    else { 

      middle = middle_char_m[int(random(middle_char_m.length))]; 

      last = last_char_m[int(random(last_char_m.length))]; 

      personal_name = middle+last; 

      gender = '(男)'; 

    }

    let full_name = surname+personal_name

    results.push([full_name, gender]);  

  }

  let count = 0; 

  for (let i = 15; i < width; i+=90){ 

    for (let j = 15; j < height+20; j+=20) { 

      textFont('Noto Sans SC'); 

      textSize(14); 

      fill(0); 

      noStroke(); 

      text(results[count][0], i, j); 

      textSize(10); 

      fill(169, 0, 0); 

      text(results[count][1], i+45, j); 

      count++; 

     }

  }

noLoop(); 

}

​

//function that determines the gender of the name

//based on generating random values between 0-1

//given that 60% of adoptees are female, returns 'female' if the number is between 0 and 0.6 and 'male' otherwise 

function male_or_female() { 

  let num = random(); 

  if (num <=0.6) { 

    return 'f'; 

  }

  else { 

    return 'm'; 

  }

}