ABT's Ballet Terms Word Tree™
How would this look on a T-Shirt, I wonder?
I checked the spellings in a ballet dictionary.
Composed in "Wordle" which is a toy for generating “word clouds” from the text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
I am redoing it to recreate the steps...
Save your text in a text edit program so you can try it out against different settings in Wordie. Type in words you want to be larger more often.
Paste your text into Wordie at www.wordle.net/create and hit Go.
Click on Color in the menu line above and select the color palette you want to try. For example, I used Worldle(TM).
Also select the level of variance you like at the bottom of the Color menu. I like lots of variance so word colors do not repeat as often and you get different shades of the basic colors..
You can click repeatedly on Recolor in the color menu, until you like the colors it chose.
Click on Layout. I like "Mostly Vertical" or "Mostly Horizontal"
You can also keep hitting "re-layout" with current settings until you get a layout you like.
I then used "Grab" and selected my area on the window I wanted to save. Grab is a nice screen selector and save program on Mac's OS X. There are plenty of similar applications on Microsoft Windows too.
Actually you should select and save the image whenever you like it because selecting changes seems to lose what you had. For me anyway.
Here's A Different Way:
It's also fun and interesting, on the create page, to use the option of giving it your webpage URL and have it select the words for you. It selects word sizes on the frequency of occurrence on the page. Or in your text for that matter.
Hope that helps.
Oh, I should mention. The colors from Wordle are too mute for my taste, so I imported it into Apple's iPhoto to give it a little more vibrancy. You can do the same in Flickr's Picnic. Or, you can use Photoshop, which is the real powerhouse.
