Squares

What do words look like as numbers? This mini project renders text as colors using python and saves them in a grid as an image. Below is an example of all the titles of Shakespears sonnets

Twenty words	Five words

How?

Given a word, eg 'Abcd' each letter of the word is assigned a value to where it sits in the alphabet. A = 0, b = 1, etc. As RGB values only need 3 numbers, we use the remaining letters to tweek the initial values from the first three...

• Word is 'Abcd'
• Values are [0,1,2]
• Remaining values are [3]
• Add [3] to value 1.

What happens with large words?

Large words will still slightly affect the 3 color values using a zip cycle. EG:

• Word is 'Abcdefghij'
• Values are [0,1,2]
• Remaining values are [3,4,5,6,7,8,9]
• For each of the remaining values, go through the initial values and add them so,
  • Remaining value 3 is added to val[0]
  • Remaining value 4 is added to val[1]
  • Remaining value 5 is added to val[2]
  • Remaining value 6 is added to val[0]
  • Remaining value 7 is added to val[1]

  for i, j in zip(cycle(range(len(colors))), additions):
    colors[i] += j
    colors[i] = int(colors[i])
  

  • Values are also multiplied respective of the upper rgb limit of 255 not being breached.

Why?

I've being trying to learn more python (and kepp up a creative practice), this was engaging enough to stick with. (Not sure what the standard of my code is like!)

Who?

Setting the placement of the plots involved tricky math, thanks to Ashley Burdett for helping.