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

• babul 18y ago
  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.
• bootload 18y ago
  "... Wordle generates “word clouds” from text ..." Wordle is built using google appengine ~ http://wordle.appspot.com/ 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/ http://web.media.mit.edu/~hugo/art/iamabeautifulsnowflake/
• tzury 18y ago
  http://evalinux.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/jquery-vs-prototype/ http://evalinux.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/jquery-vs-prototype...
• acgourley 18y ago
  That is awesome. Very versatile too.. it would readily work on your companies mission statement or your last card to your girlfriend.
• omouse 18y ago
  It would be nice if it generated a PNG or JPG or PDF.
  • wallflower 18y ago
    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.
  • HendrikR 18y ago
    It does generate PDFs with paths or SVGs. Read their f.a.q. ;)
• globalrev 18y ago
  kewl
• FleursDuMal 18y ago
  They need to start selling tshirts as fast as they can.
• vijayr 18y ago
  http://www.notcot.com/archives/2008/04/stefanie_posave.php http://www.notcot.com/archives/2008/04/stefanie_posave.php