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The layout algorithm for the word cloud is awesome! How is it made?

• jamessb 10y ago
  This is explained in the README of the project's Github repository: https://github.com/anvaka/common-words#how-are-word-clouds-rendered https://github.com/anvaka/common-words#how-are-word-clouds-r...
• delfaras 10y ago
  There's a description of the method in the Readme https://github.com/anvaka/common-words#how-are-word-clouds-rendered https://github.com/anvaka/common-words#how-are-word-clouds-r...
• sambeau 10y ago
  Unfortunately it's not using size as a metric like mouse word clouds. This confused me at first. Look at the size of 'err' in the go layout.
  • gjm11 10y ago
    It looks to me as if it is. There just are a lot of uses of "err" in typical Go code.
  • deleted 10y ago
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  • BoorishBears 10y ago
    It's humorous that in Go err/nil happens so often that it's "unbelievable" in a literal sense
  • anvaka 10y ago
    It uses it as long as there is enough space. Once it fails to find a rectangle to fit a new word, it tries to reduce the size of the word. In general, word clouds are bad for comparing sizes. For that reason I used plain list in the sidebar on the left (or at the bottom if you are on mobile)