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Textorizer allows you to make pictures formed with text. It is best described by the sample images below. Although there are many versions around, the only one that is continuing to supported is this one. Excoffizer takes a picture and produces a vector rendition of the picture, made of parallel lines of varying thickness. It is inspired by Roger Excoffon's pictograms for the 1968 Grenoble Winter Olympics. The previous version of Textorizer came as a downloadable application. Right now, textorizer/excoffizer works in Firefox, Chrome and Opera. Some browsers will however struggle with larger output images. Choose a mode examples Here are a few pictures produced with textorizer/excoffizer (click to see the text) There is even a Textorized Group on Flickr, with many more examples. Documentation Click on textorizer, textorizer2 or excoffizer Select a picture on your computer Play with the controls or enter new text, and press preview Source & Licensing The source can be browsed on github. Support

http://lapin-bleu.net/software/textorizer/

Free Photoshop Brushes - Original High Resolution Photoshop Brushes I love how much cool free stuff you can find on the web. Designers are always sharing their talents and you can find some pretty amazing stuff. To help with your search, I have compiled a list of 20 great sites where you can find awesome freebies. There’s no way to include all the great sites online. If I have missed one of your favorites, leave a link in the comments section. 1.

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Reviews BlockPosters.com Large-format printers are pricey to purchase and unwieldy to operate, but we love the look of huge posters in our classroom. One website makes massive posters possible … at no cost: BlockPosters.com Why we love it: This site allows you to create big, honkin’ posters from your own images by taking a jpg file you provide and cutting it into 8 ½ x 11​-inch blocks. You will then print out these blocks as individual pages and assemble them like a puzzle on your classroom wall, bulletin board, door or in your hallway. How it works: After uploading your image, you can easily customize how many pages wide and long you would like your finished product to be, and whether you would like a border.

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Lair of Ancient 'Kraken' Sea Monster Possibly Discovered This article was updated on Oct. 11 at 10:42 a.m. ET A giant sea monster, the likes of the mythological kraken, may have swum Earth's ancient oceans, snagging what was thought to be the sea's top predators — school bus-size ichthyosaurs with fearsome teeth. The kraken, which would've been nearly 100 feet (30 meters) long, or twice the size of the colossal squid, Mesonychoteuthis, likely drowned or broke the necks of the ichthyosaurs before dragging the corpses to its lair, akin to an octopus's midden, according to study researcher Mark McMenamin, a paleontologist at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. [Rumor or Reality: The Creatures of Cryptozoology] "It is known that the modern octopus will pile the remains of its prey in a midden and play with and manipulate those pieces," McMenamin said during a telephone interview.

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