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.

Many thanks to Darius and everyone at ColourLovers for making a great, easy to use API, also thanks to Juan Sanchez and the Degrafa team for making Degrafa the best way to draw in Flex. The DekafLovers mashup is currently featured at programmableweb.com as the mashup of the day and they have a nice writeup of it here. This mashup uses a similar codebase to Cooler Kreator, but uses the ColourLovers API instead of Kuler.

It’s great to get people making these patterns, I love seeing the stuff it produces.