 NewsCool free cover-image for Little Brother from Wordle
Ross sez, "Recently, I stumbled upon a website called wordle.net, which creates images out of text files. The image is calculated in a histogram style, with words that appear more appearing larger than words that don't appear as often. I decided to hack the algorithm by pasting 'Little Brother Cory Doctorow' about a thousand times (don't worry- it wasn't labor intensive- I used gvim and the handy keyboard shortcuts) before the text of your novel to allow your name and the title to appear more prominently in the image, for those that are into that sort of thing. The wordles have a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, so I'm pretty sure they could be redistributed instead of your licensed cover art on freely downloadable versions, if you felt like it. The only caveat is that you need to attribute the image to wordle.net. The images I have attached are free for you to use. I'm not related to this website at all. I just thought it was cool." 6 Responses to “Cool free cover-image for Little Brother from Wordle”Leave a Reply
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Cory Doctorow is already a very well-known author, but this is by far his best book yet.
Farah Mendlesohn, Strange Horizons [Read more quotes about the book]  ISBN: 0765319853
ISBN: 0007288425
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I would have thought "The" would be mor43e prominent. Perhaps I am misunderstanding the technique. Cool cover tho-
@Donnageddon: Wordle takes out what it deems to be common words in whatever language you use. You can turn that function off, which is neat, but for the most part that isn't very useful.
That's awesome!
Wordle actually tosses commonly used words like "a", "the", and "of". Otherwise, it'd be pretty boring, but I believe it's an option. I know a bunch of writers who use this to determine their "fat" words and which they overuse.
From the FAQ on the worlde site:
Why can't I get this particular word to show up in the Wordle?
Wordle probably thinks that the word is a “stop word” (a frequently-used, but unimportant word, such as “the”, “and”, or “but”) in some language. See the “Language” menu for a setting to turn off the removal of such common words.
Before hacking the algorithm, the most common word that was shown was "like", but that wasn't counting the words that were considered "stop words".
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