Tried Wordle Yet? Generate Tag Cloud Art From Your Del.icio.us Bookmarks
It’s no secret that I dig mashups. There is a particularly cool one that popped up recently called Wordle. It generates a word-art style tag cloud from a collection of text, an RSS feed or uses your Del.icio.us bookmarks tags. A very nice packing algorithm and some good color and typography customization options make the end results pretty aesthetically pleasing. Using my web design bookmarks (used very often as a teaching resource for my students), produced this masterpiece:
You should go check the site out. A pretty good selection of creations is popping up over there. I’m not sure about the actual construction of the piece, but due to it being a Java Applet, I’m guessing it was built with Processing.
Posted on June 30, 2008
Darren Daz Cox Jun 30
yow, let’s party like it’s 1999 haha!!! is that helvetica?
Graphics Dan Jul 19
wow, that is awesome! never knew what to call that…I guess cloud art is as good as any other name. thanks for the link, ive already made one.
deposito May 28
Wow this is a nice why to make cloud tags. For my own website I also use tags for SEO purposes, but they are made in the standard way as seen on the most websites. But this looks really great!
Cam Aug 24
Thanks for this, have not seen it before but going to try now.