This Web-app helps you to find anagrams : rearrangements of the letters in a word or words. The words you start with, the given words, are referred to as the source.
Here is the way you use this page. The solution came out a few months later and I immediately applied it on the Unix machine I had at work. It came up with all the anagrams that would fit a given set of words: this often ran to thousands or hundreds of thousands of anagrams, often pretty unintelligible. Sorting through all the possibilities posed a new challenge. At first I wrote Perl filters that would weed through the long lists. But then I decided I needed a more interactive solution.
I had lots of fun with it, as did others. But the years passed, and Apple eventually let go of HyperCard. What to do? I have re-implemented the stack as a Web page using JavaScript.
Alas, web page rendering is not so uniform, and this page does not work too well on some mobile platforms. But perhaps it will come, re-implemented once again, to your favorite cell phone soon! Or another tool like HyperCard will rise from the ashes. There is LiveCode. Here are some anagrams that I have worked out.
If there is enough interest, I will add a feature to this page that lets visitors add their own anagrams. But go ahead and work on your favorite names!
