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Textorizer is a tool that transforms a picture into another picture made up of chosen words. It currently comes in 2 flavours: textorizer 1 and textorizer2.
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This tool takes as input an image in PNG format (below, left), as well as a text file containing some text, and produces an SVG file which reconstructs the original image using parts of the text scattered around (right). SVG files are vector graphics files that can be displayed in any modern browsers.
See also the textorized flickr group for great textorized pictures.
More examples (SVG): tim.svg, swade.svg (swade-dense.svg), w3c.svg.
Paul Downey has a great web interface, if you want to avoid all the mess of running textorizer on your computer.
You need to download and compile: textorizer.c. Compiling requires the libpng 1 library. To compile, type:
gcc -o textorize textorizer.c -lm -lpng
Instructions: type textorizer -h and follow the
instructions.
New: a makefile and linux executables are available:
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Licencing: Copyright 2006-2007 Max Froumentin. This software is distributed under the W3C® software notice and license.
Acknowledgements: Amy van der Hiel for her Buddha picture, Dan Brickley for his danbri pictures, Paul Downey for writing the web tool, and all the users who sent feedback.
