{"id":141,"date":"2009-06-04T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T06:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/enricoros.wordpress.com\/?p=141"},"modified":"2009-06-04T08:00:35","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T06:00:35","slug":"autogram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enricoros.com\/oldblog\/2009\/06\/autogram\/","title":{"rendered":"AutoGram – The machine Vs The machine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello, it’s me again, back on the cheating<\/a> bandwagon<\/a> \ud83d\ude09 Last time we talked about BioCheat<\/a>, and now we add another piece of the web-automation<\/a> jigsaw puzzle: AutoGram<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Please enjoy this HQ stream of deceptive video pixels while I explain this fine new piece of trickery \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Vc0v9UFLGpM&w=480&h=304&rel=0]<\/p>\n

As you can see, this other frustration-driven<\/a> program lets you climb the ladder of a typical facebook game while drinking coffee or feeding your pet!<\/p>\n

So, before starting you need:<\/p>\n

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  1. a dictionary file for your language of choice (1 word per line)<\/li>\n
  2. a dictionary file with the names of your facebook friends (for the ‘bonus’ levels)<\/li>\n
  3. a compiler, because I’m not making binary packages this time \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n
  4. the source code of AutoGram, published here<\/a> and available as a tar.gz here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Build it<\/strong> with your favourite compiler (tested on Linux with gcc and on Windows with msvc) or your favourite IDE (you can download QtCreator<\/a> if you don’t know what an IDE is and click on the autogram.pro<\/em> project file). Then Run it<\/strong> and embarass your friends \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

    Here is how the program works:<\/p>\n

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    1. grabs the screen<\/strong> image and cuts off the 6 images representing the letters.\u00a0 [ScreenCapture<\/a>.h<\/em>]<\/li>\n
    2. recognizes each character<\/strong> by comparing the image to the alphabet and picks the match that has less differential energy. (is like xor-ing 2 pictures and computing the energy of that)\u00a0 [Ocr<\/a>.h<\/em>]<\/li>\n
    3. performs all the permutations<\/strong> of the characters, to find out all the words that can be made out of the given alphabet. [Scrambler<\/a>.h<\/em>]<\/li>\n
    4. validates with a dictionary<\/strong> to filter out unknown words. the dictionary is the “main language dictionary<\/em>” if the screen is yellow-ish (indicating normal game) or the “bonus game dictionary<\/em>” if the screen is red-ish (indicating a bonus game, where all the words are picked from the names of your friends).\u00a0 [Scrambler<\/a>.h<\/em>]<\/li>\n
    5. injects the words<\/strong> (as keystrokes + return) to the browser window.\u00a0 [InputUtils<\/a>.h<\/em>]<\/li>\n
    6. there is a timer-based loop<\/strong> that performs the operations 1-5 while updating the GUI.\u00a0 [WCGame<\/a>.h<\/em> contains the logic, AppWidget<\/a>.h<\/em> handles the GUI]<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      If you run AutoGram on a virtual machine, please remember to switch it off after a while<\/em>! I take no responsability of any score overflow \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

      Again here is the source code<\/a>, stay tuned for more web automation<\/em> articles, and enjoy<\/strong> \"AutoGram<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Hello, it’s me again, back on the cheating bandwagon \ud83d\ude09 Last time we talked about BioCheat, and now we add another piece of the web-automation jigsaw puzzle: AutoGram. Please enjoy this HQ stream of deceptive video pixels while I explain this fine new piece of trickery \ud83d\ude09 [youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Vc0v9UFLGpM&w=480&h=304&rel=0] As you can see, this other frustration-driven […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10,11,24,26],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-avanguardia","tag-cheating","tag-planetqt","tag-qt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enricoros.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enricoros.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enricoros.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enricoros.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enricoros.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.enricoros.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"https:\/\/www.enricoros.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enricoros.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enricoros.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enricoros.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}