User:Laura Macchini/prototyping/Oh to be in need of glasses

A generation of Soldiers seemed like a lame experiment and I couldn't sleep. Tossing and turning in the bed I dreamt of this -->

In stead of letters it has tiny rectangles; to each letter of the alphabet is associated a value of gray, if you are in need of glasses it sort of looks like tiny text.

import random, string, math
string.ascii_lowercase

cTab = dict()
alphabet = string.ascii_lowercase

for i in range (0,len(alphabet)):
	delta = int(math.floor(255/len(alphabet)))
	cTab[alphabet[i]] = i*delta

f = open ("soldier.txt", "r" )
s = f.read()
words = s.split()
dW = 8
dL = 14
punctuation = ['.',',','?']

#global
cX = 40
cY = 30


print '''<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1">'''

def rectangle(i,char):
	global cX
	global cY
	cX += dW
	cVal = cTab[char]
#	print cVal
	print'''
	  <rect x="{0}" y="{1}" width="{2}" height="{3}"
	  style="fill:rgb({4},{5},{6})"> <animate attributeName="opacity" from="1" to="0"
	begin="click" dur="2s" fill="restore" /> </rect>'''.format(cX,cY,dW,dL,cVal,cVal,cVal)

def newLine():
	global cX
	global cY
	cY += dW*5
	cX = 40


for i in range(0,len(words)):
	word = words[i]
	for char in word:
		if word in punctuation:
			newLine()
		else:
			if char in cTab:
				char = char.lower()
				rectangle(i,char)
#				print char,
#	print " ",

print '''</svg> '''