Animated, evoluative wordle...

[charliek]

Hi folks.

I'm a big fan of wordle - it's a beautiful and flexible way to present
bulky textual information in and instantly-absorbable way. I know
Wordle didn't invent tag clouds, but they made them simple, elegant
and effective.

I would love to have a way to show the evolution of a tag cloud over
time. An animated zeitgeist.

We often use tag clouds to give an instant snapshot of partcipants'
work on a particular subject. The next logical step would seem to be
to show the evolution of their ideas as the re-iterate their work over
several cycles. I would imagine that it shouldn't be too complex to
liniarly increase/decrease the size of a word based on a starting/
ending value for its 'importance'...

Has this been done? Or, is anyone working on it?

Cheers

Charlie

[Black, Robert A.]

I'm not sure if this interesting example is what you're talking about.
It shows words appearing in presidential speeches from Washington to
Bush. A scrollbar lets you move along the time line.

http://chir.ag/projects/preztags/

- Bob

P.S. I'm a big fan of Wordle too and I'd love to see Wordle support
something like this.

Hi folks.

Cheers

Charlie

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[Michael Ogawa]

Hi,

I've created a library for Processing called OpenWordle. It comes with
an example of how to create an animated view of text.

http://code.google.com/p/openwordle/

Michael

On Dec 18, 7:05 am, "Black, Robert A." <robert.bl...@gd-ais.com>
wrote:

[Spiro Carras]

Thank you michael but for us the non-programmers the question is how
do we do it step by step thank you it really looks exciting i cannot
wait to try it myself

thank you
can we do the same with images jpg, pic ???

Spiro carras

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