Helsinki 2008

Mosaic from 70 different answers

There was an article in Helsingin Sanomat by a writer and a humanist Jarkko Tontti, in the end of the year 2007. It's his review of the past year. In one chapter he writes about religion and points out that in Finland 2,1 million of people believes in astrology.

Basically, when the question is typed, program draws out a picture for the answer. It uses the words to create colors and a shape or shapes, composition would change from symmetric to random. Sharp shapes for negative things, soft and warmness for positive.
How it will work when it tries to illustrate the answer?

Can it generate a picture that the user agrees?

Line can be horizontal, vertical or diagonal, straight or curved, thick or thin.
Shapes can be geometric or organic. Shapes are flat and can express lenght and width.
Forms can express length, width and depth. Balls, cylinders, boxes and triangles are forms.
Space is the area between and around objects. In visual art we can create the feeling or illusion of depth we call it space.
Color has hue or its name (cyan, magentha, yellow, black etc.), value and saturation.

Cake, flower, love & smooth

Here is the link.

My oracle is ready, and works mostly fine. The script searches the answer from the Oracle website and with a keyword and Kuler themes creates an image. The Visual Oracle's answer is based on colors, the shapes and the number of shapes are random.