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This Python program extends the tag cloud idea to image generation, doing a little filtering on text to remove stop words and common words first. The program uses the Python Imaging Library (PIL) to generate the image. It doesn't do colors yet, but that will be easy to add. This blog post starts development of a proper software program, called TagCloudImage. You follow may development in the software directory.

These common words came from: http://www.uri.edu/comm_service/cued_speech/amerpron.html, which says about the source fo the 1000 or so words: "compiled mostly from words in a special dictionary by Robert Shaw, The New Horizon Ladder Dictionary, New York: Popular Library, Inc., 1969, for the United States Information Agency. The bias favors words in print rather than frequency of spoken English words."