jQuery.textCloud

Arranges a set of texts in a cloud using randomized placement. Note that not all texts are added, the algorithm skips texts when it cant find a place for them.

Repo

https://github.com/jwagner/jquery.textCloud/blob/master/jquery.textCloud.js

Usage

var terms = [ {text: 'Hello', scale: 1.0}, {text: 'World', scale: 1.2} ], options = { colors: '#833 #444 #955 #666 #777 #888 #975'.split(' '), iterations: 100 };

$('#cloud').textCloud(terms, options);

CSS

While not strictly required it makes sense to style the items to get some nice CSS3 transitions.

.textCloud-item { max-width: 10em; text-overflow: ellipsis; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap;

padding: 0.2em;

transition: left 1s ease-in-out; -moz-transition: left 1s ease-in-out; -webkit-transition: all 1s ease-in-out; -ms-transition: all 1s ease-in-out; -o-transition: all 1s ease-in-out; }

Algorithm

for term in terms: do pick random position while collision with already added term

add term

License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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