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Monday 7 September 2009

Wordles -- by Mishari



The Declaration of Independence:















"Oh, that this too, too solid flesh would melt...":


and today's racing card:
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14 comments:

Zephirine said...

If you click on the images you'll see them larger, and in splendid isolation.

file said...

bravo Mish, like the racing card a lot.

I think it's interesting to see how text can be visually enhanced/displayed and whether it's possible to express poetically in this form. Meltogs won't like this form cos it doesn't rhyme but I spose it could...

just a note: if you use the advanced tab at wordles you can specify the size of individual words by defining their frequency and you don't have to use all of the words if you don't want to. That said, it can be enlightening to see how frequency of certain words in texts comes out (a la the Dec. of Indie. - interesting that Power, Happiness and Right are so prominent).

It has been used as a technique to analyse speeches, apparently George W.'s second acceptance speech was dominated by the word freedom! (must have been stuff like No Freedom, Restrictions on Freedom, Freedom is the enemy of good govmt. etc.) I could go and wordle it but I just can't be arsed.

Meltonian said...

These look like word clods to me.

Anonymous said...

Thanks, file...I should have actually played around with the options settings some more, been a bit more adventurous...hindsight's a wonderful thing.

Zephirine said...

I think it's more fun to let the words come up in size according to how frequent they are, without interfering, but on the other hand you do get results like in the Wordsworth one where BESIDE is very big but not very interesting!

file said...

yes, sorry, didn't mean to sound critical, jest a seggestion!

offsideintahiti said...

Word clots?

Meltonian said...

Yes, that racing card looks like cells on a microscope slide.

mimi said...

I thought the racing one looked a bit like a horse. Isn't that the point?

On the previous, the cloud was a cloud - I thought.

offsideintahiti said...

That must hurt. Especially Folkestone.

Meltonian said...

Shergar?

mimi said...

Oouch!
Just opened a can of cat food!

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