alhadis/alphabet-soup

Fun little toy I wrote to generate chaotic, garbled HTML using randomly-offset CSS transforms.

SYNOPSIS

soup.pl [OPTIONS] < input.txt > output.html

DESCRIPTION

Generate a chaotic writing effect in HTML by randomly transforming each letter.

OPTIONS

• --min-scale [ratio=0.25]

  Specify the minimum scale ratio. Defaults to 0.25.

• --max-scale [ratio=1.95]

  Specify the maximum scale ratio. Defaults to 1.95.

• --tilt [angle=45]

  Maximum offset to rotate each letter by. Defaults to 45 degrees.

• --extra-css [string]

  Additional CSS properties to assign each transformed letter. Defaults to the empty string.

EXAMPLES

Generate evenly-sized text with wildly varying rotation:

    soup.pl --min-scale=1 --max-scale=1 --tilt=360 < input.txt

Generate text with randomly enlarged characters (without shrinking or tilting):

    soup.pl --min-scale=1 --max-scale=3 --tilt=0 < input.txt

Generate yellow-coloured text in Comic Sans:

    soup.pl --extra-css="color: #ff0; font-family: Comic Sans MS" < input.txt

AUTHOR

Copyright © 2017, Alhadis <[email protected]>. Written for a friend.