Arcan.a

C Static Library for the Tarot

Welcome to Arcan.a
Your 10-card tarot reading:
Card 1: Key 60 is in the Minor Arcana: The Paige of Swords, isInverted: 0
Card 2: Key 45 is in the Minor Arcana: The 10 of Cups, isInverted: 1
Card 3: Key 43 is in the Minor Arcana: The 8 of Cups, isInverted: 0
Card 4: Key 9 is in the MAJOR ARCANA: IX: THE HERMIT, isInverted: 1
Card 5: Key 71 is in the Minor Arcana: The 8 of Pentacles, isInverted: 1
Card 6: Key 41 is in the Minor Arcana: The 6 of Cups, isInverted: 1
Card 7: Key 74 is in the Minor Arcana: The Paige of Pentacles, isInverted: 1
Card 8: Key 41 is in the Minor Arcana: The 6 of Cups, isInverted: 1
Card 9: Key 65 is in the Minor Arcana: The 2 of Pentacles, isInverted: 1
Card 10: Key 68 is in the Minor Arcana: The 5 of Pentacles, isInverted: 0
Best of luck!

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Features

Cards

• Generate Deck

• Shuffle Deck with Fisher-Yeates

• Identify card from index 0-77

• Randomly assign inversion for card

Dealing

• Extract chosen court card
  • Shuffle remaining deck
• Deal top 10 cards

API

• Swift Package - simply hit this repo with Xcode / swiftpm
  • swift build
  • swift run ArcanaDriver

Cross-platform

• Cmake Project for WSL/Linux imports arc4random_uniform from bsd.h
• swiftpm system module for bsd.h

Driver Program

• Interactive CLI
  • getchar() used to stagger reveal of cards.

TODO

• C Source cleanup

• Refine Swift Interface

  • Wrapper to be used in GUI

• Analyse reading (primarily suits / major arcana etc)