Simulate Matrix background - c++

Question

I am traying to simulate the the background of Matrix film and I wrote the code below:
#include <iostream>
#include<windows.h>
#include <conio.h>
using namespace std;
void CursorPosition(short x, short y) {
COORD coordScreen = {x, y};
SetConsoleCursorPosition(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), coordScreen);
}
void color(int nb) {
SetConsoleTextAttribute(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), nb);
}
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
unsigned int y[79];
unsigned int ymin[79];
unsigned int a, b;
char i[36] = {48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69,
70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87,
88, 89, 90};
system("title The Matrix !");
color(10);
for (a = 0; a < 79; a++) {
y[a] = 0;
ymin[a] = 1;
}
do {
for (unsigned int x = 0; x < 79; x++) {
for (unsigned int j = 0; j < 5; j++) {
a = rand() % 79;
if (y[a] != 0) {
b = rand() % y[a] + ymin[a];
if (b < 26) {
if (b < ymin[a] + 2 & b > 2) color(2);
CursorPosition(a + 1, b);
cout << i[rand() % 36];
color(10);
}
}
}
if (y[x] != 0 || (rand() % 50) == 0) {
if ((rand() % (y[x] + 1)) < 20 & ymin[x] == 1) {
y[x]++;
} else {
CursorPosition(x + 1, ymin[x]);
cout << " ";
ymin[x]++;
if (ymin[x] < 25) {
color(2);
CursorPosition(x + 1, ymin[x] + 1);
cout << i[rand() % 36];
color(10);
}
}
if ((y[x] + ymin[x]) < 26) {
CursorPosition(x + 1, y[x] + ymin[x]);
color(15);
cout << i[rand() % 36];
color(10);
}
if ((y[x] + ymin[x]) < 27) {
CursorPosition(x + 1, y[x] + ymin[x] - 1);
cout << i[rand() % 36];
}
}
if (ymin[x] > 25) {
ymin[x] = 1;
y[x] = 0;
}j
}
Sleep(35);
} while (!kbhit());
return 0;
}
Do you have any recommendation to improve the code ?
My purpose is like this:

Answer 1

Your code is not writing those chars. It is writing simple alphabet chars numbers 0-9.
What you need is half-width Kana Characters:
｡ ｢ ｣ ､ ･ ｦ ｧ ｨ ｩ ｪ ｫ ｬ ｭ ｮ ｯ
ｰ ｱ ｲ ｳ ｴ ｵ ｶ ｷ ｸ ｹ ｺ ｻ ｼ ｽ ｾ ｿ
ﾀ ﾁ ﾂ ﾃ ﾄ ﾅ ﾆ ﾇ ﾈ ﾉ ﾊ ﾋ ﾌ ﾍ ﾎ ﾏ
ﾐ ﾑ ﾒ ﾓ ﾔ ﾕ ﾖ ﾗ ﾘ ﾙ ﾚ ﾛ ﾜ ﾝ ﾞ ﾟ
You need boost libraries' boundary part to get these i think.
Some example i found:
boost::locale::generator gen;
using namespace boost::locale::boundary;
std::string text="生きるか死ぬか、それが問題だ。";
ssegment_index map(word,text.begin(),text.end(),gen("ja_JP.UTF-8"));
for(ssegment_index::iterator it=map.begin(),e=map.end();it!=e;++it) {
std::cout << "Segment " << *it << " contains: ";
if(it->rule() & word_none)
std::cout << "white space or punctuation marks ";
if(it->rule() & word_kana)
std::cout << "kana characters ";
if(it->rule() & word_ideo)
std::cout << "ideographic characters";
std::cout<< std::endl;
}
output:
Segment 生 contains: ideographic characters
Segment きるか contains: kana characters
Segment 死 contains: ideographic characters
Segment ぬか contains: kana characters
Segment 、 contains: white space or punctuation marks
Segment それが contains: kana characters
Segment 問題 contains: ideographic characters
Segment だ contains: kana characters
Segment 。 contains: white space or punctuation marks
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