Wordle [excellent for brainstorming]
Donateko (125 points) | Sun, 2009-03-22 07:17
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It's a very cool site. I've played with it for 20 minutes straight! :)
I can't stop playing with it either.
--designer wannabe--
Worldle images are licensed as creative commons attribution. You can make money off of them.
http://www.wordle.net/faq#money
The problem I have with the site is that there is no good/easy way to export your creations. The best output method is to save as PDF and then extract from there. I wish there was a way to save as a vector image.
You could always capture it and then trace t in Ai.
--designer wannabe--
A PDF *is* a vector image.
Actually - thats bollox mate.
Jack
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Not so. Though .pdf can contain raster images it can also contain vector work. In the case of this site if you save it as a .pdf and open it in Illustrator you will have all the vector information available to you.
You said - "a pdf is a vector image".
Not so.
Jack
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In the matter concerned the important information in the PDF is vector; for that matter the statement "A PDF is vector" (or the PDF is vector; or the nice bits in the PDF are vector) is a perfectly acceptable statement since the intended meaning was "A PDF can contain vectors and the downloaded typography in the PDF from Wordle is most likely embedded fonts rather than a raster object".
Anything more than that turns into an adolescent discussion of he said, she said.
If you keep your ears open, you'll see better.
I see what you are saying now, my browser wouldn't open the print window before. Keep in mind that not all .PDFs are vector images.
--designer wannabe--
That is wicked. Thanks for sharing.
3 dog.
"Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised." - James Thurber
I love it! Thanks soo much for Sharing! I am going to have fun playing with some of my poems on the site.
Tina :)
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Its clever - but REALLY what is the point?
Jack
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I always have trouble making my mind up on font styles, I can see this coming in handy.
'I am a patient boy, I wait, I wait, I wait, I wait'
very fun, i used it for some girl :))
Looks like someone is already using this to make money. I came across this JQuery t-shirt on Cameron Moll's site today.
I couldn't make any sense out of it!
http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com
As part of TweetStats, it pulls my Twitter feed and uses all the words from my Tweets. While it may seem useless, it's quite helpful to me. The more times a word appears in my Tweets, the larger the word is in the Wordle artwork. This tells me what I'm Tweeting about most often - and forces me to diversify. Plus it shows me trends. I create a new Wordle graphic every couple of weeks, so I see what the most popular topics of discussion were at any given time because I save the files by date.
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