thisismikekane/wordswarm

Create animated word clouds that show how word frequency changes in time

wordswarm's Issues

Cloud shape control

This is a great project. Thanks so much for your effort!

Is it possible to control the shape of the cloud? I was trying to discover this but couldn't find how the cloud shape is achieved. In the examples it seems to slowly elongate horizontally and I'm trying to keep it in a general shape. If so, how would I go about doing this?

Once able to control the shape, I was hoping to go even further to achieve something similar to the wordcloud library, where you can mask it to any given shape - (e.g. winter-themed cloud shaped as a snowflake).

Compatibility with Linux and newer versions of python

Hi,
This is an amazing library, but I wonder if you plan to make it compatible with newer versions of python or Linux. I also think it would be amazing if there is a pip install wordswarm command for anyone who uses this library.
Is there any plan to do this?

WordSwarm

Hi Michael Kane! My name is Felicia De Lucia, i am a master's student.

I am working with Information Visualization and recently saw your project: WordSwarm, and it seems to me very great. I've downloaded the Python version that you have proposed in github.com and I’ve tried to use it. However, I have had some problems and I want to ask for your help to solve if it is possible.

In step 6 I run python wordSwarm.py but when I do, I get this error: "No FreeType support compiled", I tried to solve it in every possible way without success.

I also want to know if instead of making scraping, my data is in a MySQL database, how should I do this?

I will appreciate any cooperation you can give me.

Thank you very much!

Regards.

No FreeType support compiled

python wordSwarm.py -i nGramOut20140511205241.csv -s -m 15 -t "My First WordSwarm!"

throws No FreeType support compiled