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Textorizer II

Texturizer II is a tool that takes a picture, and creates another picture that looks like the original one but made by writing text.

Examples

original jetlag image textorized jetlag image

James Joyce W3C logo The Buddha

Using it: the easy way

Use the form below to specify the original picture's address, the text and and a few parameters, and the textorized image will appear in your browser (if it's modern enough. Safari, Opera and Firefox are known to work, with varying levels of success).


Link to image:

jpeg, png, or gif file, less than 128KB in size.

Text:

Text to draw the image with (only ASCII supported).

Number of Lines:

How many lines of text will make the picture (max: 100)

Text Size:

Controls the size of the text (min: 0, max: 3)
0.5: small size, 1: normal size, 1.5: larger

Colour Adjustment:

controls colour saturation of the text (min:0, max: 1)
0: original text colour, 0.2: slightly more saturated, 1: very saturated.


The Source

  • textorizer2.php: this page
  • textorize2.phps: where the SVG generation happens
  • textorizer2-params.phps: some parameters
  • utils.phps: a collection of functions used by all textorizers.

    • Copyright 2006-2007 Max Froumentin. This software is distributed under the W3C® software notice and license.

    Acknowledgements

    Amy van der Hiel for her Buddha picture, Dan Brickley for his danbri pictures, Paul Downey for writing the textorizer 1 web tool, and all the users who sent feedback.

    Max