The computer scientist in my life doesn't think of himself as very creative....but I disagree. He is a maker of things, so he is creative in his way...which is just slightly more rigid and ordered than my own creative spirit. As far as I am concerned, no artistic expression is ever wrong...so once I was moved in to the new studio, he mentioned that he wanted to make a print. For him to create the artwork for it, he had to throw in a little computer science to really make it his own.
There is a word optimization software...usually that name alone would have lost me...that can be found on the internet called
Wordle. He likes the algorithms it makes use of and the way it orders words. We input the text of Robert Frost's
The Road Not Taken. The software then lays out the words horizontally, vertically or both. You can adjust both the color and font to your liking. We then took the image and made it into a plate for printing. Here is a sample of our first attempt.
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