A Word Cloud is a wonderful way to visually work out a pile of ideas. It can help bring order to chaos. For this one, I used WordItOut, with text from The Free Dictionary's entry for Light. This was my warm-up, so to speak. But it seemed to be missing many of the words/terms/ideas that I brainstormed myself (and too many references to smoking cigarettes), so I went back to the drawing board with my own list and went wild with Worlde. The funny thing is : They were pretty good, and then I added the word connection (think : fiber optic communications with or without the fiber optics), and that seemed to bring it all together!This one came out looking like a scratch board where the color comes through and pops with that black background. Or Christmas Lights on a dark night ...
Here are a few more Wordles to show you what's possible :
Wordle lets you choose color palettes, fonts, and general formating of the words. Or just hit Randomize until you get something you like. I saved them to the Wordle Public Gallery. I didn't quite figure out how to save them to my own files, or rotate them when it made sense. I can always go back to them later.
Thanks for joining me on my Light Journey. Smiles!
2 comments:
I haven't played with word clouds since they first came out. Ran my blog through it and wondered just how many of the posts it was actually scanning for the results. Here's one version I saved http://tinyurl.com/ol3okse
Yours are more interesting in arrangement. I'll have to try this again.
I like the black background with red word for LIGHT...
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