Word Vader

I was putting my son to bed, and I said, "I feel like writing a computer program, but I don't have any ideas," and he said, "make something that draws Star Wars characters with words," and I had most of the code for that kind of thing lying around, and here it is.

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Jonathan Feinberg says:

Argh; flickr didn't preserve the full size (or format) of my photo. Boo.

Edit: If you want a large, high-res version of this, you can get it from jdf.posterous.com/ .
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

wpgrant says:

very, very cool....
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

myfear says:

Great idea :) btw: I love wordle :)

Seen on your photo stream. (?²ˣ)
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

thrower.de says:

Whuuuwhuuuu! Great!
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

Ruthann Zaroff says:

Your son has a cool dad!
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

phillyDesignr says:

you and your son rock man! thanks for wordle too!
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

art makes me smile says:

Wordaliscious... I get very jealous of the 'clever' people.. brilliant stuff and love the wordle programme... soooooo addictive
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

Chrisloumatt says:

Niiiice!
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

MrsSuperSpy says:

This is great - my boys are Star Wars fanatics. Thanks for sharing!
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

fecsx says:

Soo Cool !! i really like to draw stuff from words as well.. can't wait to see Wordle evolve :F Cheers!
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

-Amir Esmann - says:

Exelent and creativ work !Congrat
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

da5nsy says:

ha thats pretty awesome stuff!
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

JoeyfromSC says:

WOW you are so creative!! fantastic work!
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

kecia85 says:

Sweeeeeeeeett, how'd you do that?
May a young Jedi learn?
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

eleanor, put your boots on says:

can you add something to wordle that would make you be able to shape wordles? like a heart or a apple? *wink*
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

Jonathan Feinberg says:

Hi, everyone. Thanks for all of the comments. I don't use flickr much, so they kind of piled up.

I can't really tell you "how" I do it, because the answer is a few hundreds lines of computerese. In brief, I posterize the source image into 3 or 4 colors, then create a mask for each color, then try to squeeze the words into those masks by randomly plopping them into the spaces defined by the masks, making the phrases smaller and smaller as I fail to find room. It's really, really slow.
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

kinetic lensman says:

Great stuff - explanation makes sense as well. I just wish I had the bits lying around myself
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

Miss Vinyl says:

Love it!!
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

XxHollisterBOYxX2009 says:

Thats Sooo Beast >:O
Posted 3 months ago. ( permalink )

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