i put in the word “organize” into the search box at visuwords, and the results were a visual mess. go ahead, give it a try and see what i mean. the results produce a fantastic thesaurus, so it’s worth a look, but a quick look. while you’re there, grab one of the word nodes and drag it around the screen and then watch all the nodes resettle themselves. i then searched the word “monkey” and had much prettier results.
the bottom line: this is a really fun site that can be used to stimulate some ideas about words you may not have considered before. i’ll bookmark it to give it a try the next time i’m writing an article and need a thesaurus.
further thinking: i wonder if something like this could be created with medical subject headings as the source code, where if one heading appears in more than one tree, the trees would display as separate nodes. hmmm…if only i were a programmer!
