Amaztype. Beautiful Word Clouds. Color Names Explorer. By: Jeff Clark Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 Dolores Labs recently did an interesting experiment where they showed many people samples of colors and asked them what they should be called. They posted a graphic that showed the color names that people used for the various colors. Dolores Labs' Color Name Cloud (click to see larger version in original article) They also posted the raw data for other people to play with. Martin Wattenberg at IBM Research took the data and created a much more beautiful graphic.
Wattenberg's Version of the Color Name Cloud (click to see larger version in original article) I decided to try my hand at building a simple interactive 3D explorer for the data as well. Color Name Cloud - initial view Color Name Cloud - zoomed in view The initial view is similar to Wattenberg's but not spaced out as nicely. You can try out the color name explorer below. The application may take 10-20 seconds to start up. The application was built with the wonderful Processing - many thanks ! Juan Osborne. Tagxedo - Word Cloud with Styles. 101 Ways to Use Tagxedo. HTML5 Word Cloud: Text Analyzer. You Are Your Words - AHD.