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WordOrientation

is an option for WordCloud that specifies the orientations in which words appear.

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WordOrientation

WordOrientation

is an option for WordCloud that specifies the orientations in which words appear.

Details

  • Possible settings for WordOrientation include:
  • "Horizontal"all horizontal
    "Vertical"all vertical
    θall at angle θ
    "HorizontalVertical"almost half horizontal, half vertical
    {"HorizontalVertical",f}fraction f of the words are horizontal; the rest are vertical
    "Random"randomly select from the range
    {θ1,θ2}word rotations randomly taken from the range {θ1,θ2}
    {{θ1,θ2,…}}randomly select from the list of rotations θi
  • Rotation angle θi represents words rotated counterclockwise by θi radians.
  • For all settings allowing random choices of angle the RandomSeeding option to WordCloud can be used to determine the seeding of the randomness used.

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Basic Examples  (1)

A word cloud with random orientations:

Randomly select from two given orientations:

Scope  (1)

Use different orientation settings when creating the word cloud:

All horizontal text:

All vertical:

All at a fixed angle:

Horizontal and vertical:

Use 80 percent horizontal:

Use random orientation in the range :

Specify a range of word orientations:

Specify a list of accepted orientations:

Wolfram Research (2015), WordOrientation, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/WordOrientation.html.

Text

Wolfram Research (2015), WordOrientation, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/WordOrientation.html.

CMS

Wolfram Language. 2015. "WordOrientation." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/WordOrientation.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (2015). WordOrientation. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/WordOrientation.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_wordorientation, author="Wolfram Research", title="{WordOrientation}", year="2015", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/WordOrientation.html}", note=[Accessed: 13-August-2025]}

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@online{reference.wolfram_2025_wordorientation, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={WordOrientation}, year={2015}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/WordOrientation.html}, note=[Accessed: 13-August-2025]}