July 26, 2006
Color Code: A Color Portrait of the English Language
A picture of English nouns.
33,000 words, grouped by meaning. Each word is given the average color of web images found when searching for that term. The resulting patterns form an atlas of our lexicon. You can see clusters of words related to plants, flesh, food, and water.
A zoomed in view of words related to pasta
http://loop.aiga.org/resources/loop/loop9/colorproject/colorcode.html
http://loop.aiga.org/resources/loop/loop9/colorproject/gallery.html
by Martin Wattenberg
Posted by Stubbornson at July 26, 2006 06:59 PM