Wordle generates “word clouds” from text - Very Cool Visualization

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15 points·smanek··10 comments

"... Wordle generates “word clouds” from text ..."

Wordle is built using google appengine ~ http://wordle.appspot.com/ I was looking at it last week. Needs java to display the output. Don't have java setup for my browser so I didn't get to play with it. Interesting but not as innovative as "I am a beautiful snowflake" ~ http://web.media.mit.edu/~hugo/art/iamabeautifulsnowflake/

It would be better if it could be incorporated easily into websites (did not rely on Java to display the word cloud) and generated automatically upon changes to the context it is used within.

In such a case, it would be a hit as a WordPress plugin.

http://evalinux.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/jquery-vs-prototype...

They need to start selling tshirts as fast as they can.

http://www.notcot.com/archives/2008/04/stefanie_posave.php

That is awesome. Very versatile too.. it would readily work on your companies mission statement or your last card to your girlfriend.

It would be nice if it generated a PNG or JPG or PDF.

Innovative. I love small projects that blend art with technology to allow users to create something and/or auto-generate something.

If Google AppEngine supported Java, -Djava.awt.headless=true is pretty much all that's needed. I assume rendering graphics with Python isn't as familiar for wordle's developers.

It does generate PDFs with paths or SVGs. Read their f.a.q. ;)

kewl

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