Lexical ghosts
April 7 2011, 5:17 AM
Some visual poetry today. The following images are visual "averages" of every 3-, 4-, 5-, 6-, 7-, and 8-letter word in the English language. The typeface used is Apple's Menlo. Source code after the jump. (I used ImageMagick to enlarge and dither the images.)
(requires processing.py)