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John Maeda


Just a quick post about John Maeda and his book ‘ Laws of Simplicity” wich I recommend reading.

The image contains the most used words in this book.

And, of course, thanks John because you began processing….

Download free PDF JohnMaeda.pdf (580kB).

Take a closer look.

Lost Characters.

We are Lost again. Now we will look at the Characters evolution and their relationship.

I took all the english subtitles of the five seasons and I counted all the words but in a new and different way, by taking care of word position.

The right part of the image shows the number of times the word appears through episodes. You can see how some characters just disappear or gain prominence in time.

In the left part of the image, every character has the words that are close to his name in the subtitles. The bigger, the more times the word appears. The distance to the character is proportional to the distance between words. Characters are colored in order to ease location. The character position is random.

You can draw some conclusions.

Take a closer look….click to enlarge.

Hope you like it!

Download PDF poster LostCharacters.pdf (883kB).

The Bible


Probably the most interesting book ever… The Holy Bible.

This time I want to know if there is deep differences between New and Old Testaments. So I counted words from these documents independently and put the results together each one in a side of the image. The left hand represents the words from the New Testament. The right hand the Old Testament ones.

Because the Old testament is bigger than the New Testament I used a correction factor so the words can be compared in size between both documents.

As base image I used a part of a well know Michelangelo painting…

One more thing. There is a lot of free versions of the Bible. I just pick one of them in english and another in spanish (double work of course). There must be huge differences between all the different versions of the Bible. Even between the differents idioms. For example the word ‘Lord’ in english correspond to ‘Jehovah’ in the spanish version… I don’t know why…

And remember, it is just a exercise… the results may be inexactly or totally wrong at all..

Old Testament: lord 7279, god 3340, son 3044, said 2941, king 2759, upon 2502, israel 2501, day 2124, house 1943, people 1910, man 1829, land 1709, hand 1681, children 1662, saying 1628, came 1590, shalt 1510, come 1432, one 1431, go 1342…

New Testament: god 1392, said 1061, jesus 984, man 908, saying 904, things 848, lord 734, come 657, one 615, also 599, christ 573, came 506, day 485, son 454, father 428, now 407, men 396, therefore 356, know 348, went 338…

Download TheBible.pdf (English Version) (436kB)
Download LaBiblia.pdf (Spanish Version) (440kB)

Playing with… Lennon

Same as Eintein post. Now you have to find ten words related to John Lennon.

Download PDF lennonwords.pdf (295kB)

If you give up here is the solution.

Generative Composition

Here we go Again. Now with a composition application programmed in processing.

The program takes a bunch of images and generate a composition using a (random) growing pattern algoritm. If you dont like the composition you just have to click and the program will generate a new random composition… till the one you like.

The nice thing is that you can have a mask layer. The black parts of the mask image will be areas forbidden for the algoritm.

As an example I used more than 200 photos from one of my last architectural project, a retail centre in Lorca (Spain). Click to enlarge view or download PDF version.

Dowload PDF ParqueAlmenara.pdf (7.5MB)


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