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Millenium ENG

Download (English) millenium-eng.pdf (215kB).
Download (Spanish) millenium-esp.pdf (235kB).

Based in the Stieg Larsson Bestseller. All the words from the Millenium trilogy.

In this case the problem was the huge step between the first words. Take a look at the word list:

blomkvist 2521, salander 2376, police 879, vanger 878, berger 703, zalachenko 589, murder 584, lisbeth 526, investigation 475, apartment 468, harriet 453, bjurman 448, bublanski 405, mikael 396, armansky 379, millennium 356, security 345, coffee 322, martin 319, computer 309, wennerström 307, ekström 302, svensson 300, henrik 288, niedermann 287, spent 286, taken 284, giannini 270, photograph 268, desk 267.

In only 30 words we have tenth of the initial size. The words becomes like ants quickly.

So I decided to insert a kind of ‘brake’ in the algorithm that makes the steps between words shorter. Yes, we lose accurate proportionality but still retain importance degree between words.

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The spanish version uses the spanish books. No google translation.

Imagine

Imagine ENGDownload imagine-eng.pdf (415kB)

Here is my version of the usual “Imagine by John Lennon” art. An irresistible temptation took me to make my own version of this really nice (and better than mine) image .

In this case the words just spread without a fixed height. There is more than 20.000 words so I estimate that it show all the words of the song about fifty times.

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Let there be House

House-ENG

Download house-eng.pdf (234kB).

Download house-esp.pdf (264kB).

House MD is one of my favorites TV show, I really enjoy the show. House deserves a tribute!.

Hands on it, I collected all the subtitles of the first five seasons from the website http://www.tvsubtitles.net/ something like 115 episodes.

Because the subtitles are ‘common language’ there is not so much information as in a song or a speech. I needed to clean up the word list in order to have a significant result.

So I increased the numbers of words that the algoritm will discard during the counting process
using the 1000 most commonly used English words that I found in http://www.duboislc.org/EducationWatch/First100Words.html

I also realized that there is a lot of strange words with only one hit, probably due to the nature of the subtitles. I decided to include only the words with two or more hits.

Here is the final image!… Cuddy would be proud.

As usual, all files for personal use only.

New York City

NewYorkCity-ENG

Download newyorkcity-eng.pdf (740kB).

Words taken from wikipedia article about New York City. Original image from the same wikipedia article. It’s a panoramic night view, looking north from the Empire State Building (image from Diliff)

This is an oportunity to test the limits of the algorithm. So I’m thinking of a really large print, like a building facade or the interior wall of a restaurant (of course I’m architect). This will be the target, don’t blame me if you try to print it on a little piece of paper.

So there will be new rules: Only uppercase or firstcase words, these must be representative words of the city. Only words with two or more hits, I only  need the most representative of them.  Result… there is only 223 words left from (aprox) 3.000.

First twenty words: york 250, manhattan 52, american 48, brooklyn 23, bronx 22, queens 19, staten 18,central 15, jersey 11, lower 11, university 11, county 10, international 10, hall 9, boroughs 8, court 8, liberty 8, african 7, broadway 7, college 7.

After a couple of test I realised that I cannot use the count method to calculate the word size, because I need to put almost 20.000 words to get a nice result. Then I discarded the counter value and redistributed the sizes using an exponential function between two fixed values.

Hope you like it. Images free for personal use.

Goodbye Michael…

MichaelJackson-ENGDownload Michael Jackson (English version).pdf (190kB).

Download Michael Jackson (Spanish version).pdf (188kB).

This is an updated version of my ‘goodbye message’ for Michael Jackson. This time I collected more than four thousand messages that people posted in http://www.lacortedelreydelpop.com/ after the sudden death of Michael.

All the messages were written in Spanish so, in this case, the English version is a direct translation of the spanish using Google.

I did not discrimínate. The image contains all the words of all the messages… even the ‘not so nice’ ones.

20 first words:michael 3158, always 2734, music 1509, king 1423, jackson 1173, pop 1164, heart 1158, life 1023, thanks 919, never 870, world 869, peace 820, best 40, god 725, left 723, big 716, dead 664, rests 656, believe 651, alone 648.

My apologies because I cannot find the website that hosted the original image. It was a very nice abstract image of an asian artist…. I think.

Those images are free for non-commercial personal use.


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