PE4_Tagxedo

I revisited Tagxedo the other day and decided to get a little deeper into its functionality.  I wanted to start with the "Word | Layout Options" menu and learn how all of the different options affect the final output of the word cloud.

The "Word | Layout Options" menu has a lot of things you can choose to change, in a tabbed layout

I chose to work with the "emphasis" option, since I thought it was pretty self-explanatory.  My hypothesis is that "emphasis" affects the size of words in the final output based on the frequency of use (makes sense, right?).  The "emphasis" option is represented by  a slider which increases or decreases by percentages from 0% to 120%.

A closer look at the 'Layout' tab of the option window

I figured I'd keep my experiment "simple" and just use my name for the input words, my first initial for the shape, and allow replication (meaning that Tagxedo will repeat words in order to better fill out the chosen shape, up to the maximum word count).

One attempt at getting to the bottom of the "emphasis" mystery

The results, however, were not as simple as I thought they would be…I'm going to have to go back to the drawing board and rethink this emphasis thing a little.