Poetry on the Road 2004
Poetry on the Road is a poetry festival in Bremen. Since 2002, we create computer generated motives for the visual communication.
As Poetry 03 is line-based, it was almost a logical step to think about shapes when it came to designing Poetry 04.
In Poetry 04, every poem is visualised as a cluster of polygons, while every polygon represents a single word. The exact shape of each polygon is based on the statistical allocation of letters within a language. If a letter has a very high frequency in the language, its impact on the overall shape of the polygon is very strong.
Based on these simple rules, a computer program was created that turned 20 poems into a complex, three-dimensional space. In order to explore this concept, please have a look at the simplified web-version of Poetry 2004. With this little application, you can create your own clusters.
