These clouds can be created quite easily in Houdini, and that's what this article is about - a "click-along tutorial". In particular, reading in external data from a table in order to process it procedurally, as described here, makes sense not only for Word Art.
Houdini can read in external data in various ways. The most comprehensive is certainly a self-written Python parser, but that is not necessary here, because Houdini comes with the Table Import Node as standard. This makes it possible to import tables in CSV format. If you look under the bonnet of the table import node, you will of course find a Python script there anyway. This is one of the reasons why I like Houdini so much: almost everything is open and can be studied or adapted to your own needs. In the table, I have entered the words for the Word Cloud in column A, the size in column B and the font to be used in column C. The beginning of all evil or this setup: the table import node and the menu ...
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