Thursday, July 17, 2008

Views of Iceland with a difference

Pewter Lowercase Letter i C McElman_071026_2450_E l-sf A McElman_080417_6572_N D

I have just been playing about with a programme which extracts letters from images which have been uploaded to Flickr and lets you make words with them. However, as you can see, I haven't worked out how to make the letters smaller so they fit in one line. Maybe you could follow the link and have a go?

If you do, you will see that you can click on the letters to make them change. Some are definitely better for 'Iceland' than others. For example, here is a version that doesn't seem right.... until you start thinking volcanoes!
i003 C a rare sighting: è in neon L A n005 D

Here's what I managed to produce for 'Puffin'..
No parking u-ca F 'Un i N.

Here are my last two attempts - Iceland in winter and summer. Hopefully it's obvious which is which!
...and N.B. the letters are all in one line!

Have a go - it's something to do when it's raining outside.

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