Friday, July 11, 2008

Playing around with image generators

I choose to look at The Generator Blog and picked Wordle to look at. Wordle is used for generating "word clouds" from text or a URL that you provide. You can change the font, layout and colour scheme to make the cloud more interesting. The words that appeared more frequently in the source text were given greater prominence in the cloud.

I decided to use http://elgar-mllearn.blogspot.com. The words that appear most prominently in the "word cloud" were Manukau, Libraries, programme, blog and staff. To take a closer look click on the image.

I decided to give manigraph a go as well and found that using low resolution high contrast images worked best for this. Uploading an image from my computer of a car I decided to create my own vector images of the car in red and blue and do the whole Andy Warhol thing - I think I've succeeded in doing this. Just remember to use paint.net to do this.

1 comment:

tosca said...

I like the magnigraph image! Would look pretty gosh darn cool on a t-shirt. Are you goin' to rock in wearin' it?? Aww you didn't mention Pam Anderson!! I did :)