October 29, 2009

Word Imagery

Cristina Costantini creates "word clouds" out of her writings using a program called Wordle. See examples here and here. Very neat!

2 comments:

P.G. Monateri said...

It really works!
I did the same with an article I wrote on Hamlet and posted to SSRN and the putcome is amazing
http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/1262193/Eliot_Schmitt
P.G.Monateri

C. Costantini said...

Well I think that the pictorial way of representing the subtle 'measure' encodied in whatever text could be surprising, amazing and could become a clever intellectual tool!