Word Cloud -- This was an attempt to make something like what you see at www.wordle.net, where words are assembled randomly but have a size that is related to how often the word appears. In response to question on Karenb's excellent ScratchEd site http://scratched.media.mit.edu/discussions/how-do-i/word-cloud-scratch This example depicts a (highly edited) list of words from a poem you might recognize. The four mode buttons at top control whether the words are horizontal+vertical, just horizontal, just vertical, or random angle. The wordsUnique list includes the list of words, and the freq list contains the frequency of use for each word. Just plug your own data into the wordsUnique and freq lists to make your own. I used this website to generate my data: http://www.mytranslate.com/wordfrequency.htm Maybe some enterprising Scratcher can come up with a remix that actually sorts and creates the frequency list itself :) Download and set single step to "turbo speed" for best results. I've left the "search rectangle" slightly visible so you can see how it works.
