Poem Visualizer

Jue Wang (cremeglace at gmail dot com), 3/5/08

This visualization, made for a midterm exam in my computer visualization class, draws a grid of squares to represent the words in a poem. The saturation of a square increases with the length of the word it represents, and brightness decreases as the word appears further down the page in a poem, and the hue is determined randomly for each word when it first appears. Note that the same word is represented by the same color wherever in the poem, so the squares tend to get darker as you go toward the end of the poem, except when a word is repeated that appeared earlier on. Line breaks are represented by black squares.

For a little more background, see my blog post about this visualization.

Source code: poem_visualizer

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