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Neoformix

Discovering and Illustrating Patterns in Data


Obama Victory SpeechNovember 12

The word portraits I've been creating lately are visually interesting but lack the ability to express longer text passages in a legible manner. I've started exploring another technique for combining images and text that might be better suited for this purpose.

The picture below is constructed from the text of Obama's victory speech on election night together with the iconic Hope/Progress image designed by Shepard Fairey. I had to fiddle a bit with font sizes and spacing to get the text to smoothly fill a complete rectangle but it was a fairly simple process.

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President ObamaNovember 5

I stayed up all night putting the words in just the right places...

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Colored Word PortraitsOctober 28

Just for the fun of it I've modified my word portrait code to create colored images. Here is one for Obama again generated from 'HOPE', 'CHANGE', and 'YES WE CAN'. These images also use vertical text which allows filling more of the available space.

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The font used in the image above is called Impact. Here is a second image created with a different font that is very thin - Bernhard Fashion BT.

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StreamGraph for 'One Week'October 28

Here is a StreamGraph constructed from the 'One Week' speech delivered by Obama on Oct 27th, 2008. It does a good job of highlighting the major themes of the speech.

  • the words 'one week' are prominent at the beginning and end of the speech
  • the strong juxtaposition of the words 'Bush', 'McCain', 'years', and 'change' just after the opening words
  • discussion in the middle of the speech of 'taxes', 'jobs', 'health', 'care', 'insurance'

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Einstein Word PortraitOctober 23

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I believe the 'seed' image I started from is by Philippe Halsman. Thanks again to Gui Borchet for the inspiration and to Processing.org for the tools.