We present an interactive technique that can render aliasing-free and
coherent word clouds. Words that are not legible are first identified and
appropriately adjusted in size to remove aliasing. The adjusted words are
either placed in a local optimal position without overlapping the existing
words, or filtered out for effective utilization of screen space. The layout
of the refined word cloud is then compressed by a novel force-directed model.
We demonstrate the effectiveness and usefulness of our technique with an
application in semantic zooming of word clouds.