Here goes nothing:

Special Note: I suck at APIs. So, when I suck at APIs, just grab what someone else did (that did the same thing I was going to do):
http://www.baldheretic.com/pics/humor/pacman.jpg

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Alright - lemme offer a quick tutorial how it works ... :)

We want to build a URL that will have all the data for the chart in it. Start by calling the program itself:
http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?

Define the size, more wide than tall so we have room for labels:
chs=450x150

Set the graph type to "pie chart":
cht=p

Set the colors to yellow and purple:
chco=ffff00,dd00dd

Add the top label:
chtt=Percentage+of+chart+which+resembles+Pac-Man

... and the labels for the data (pie charts, sadly, can't use chdl, just the pie-specific ones):
chl= Resembles+Pac-Man|Does+not+resemble+Pac-Man

And, finally, provide the data - we're just going to use text encoding and make the numbers roughly proportional to the original:
chd=t:80,20

... then string them all together with &s:

http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=450x150&cht=p&chco=ffff00,dd00dd&chtt=Percentage+of+chart+which+resembles+Pac-Man&chl=Resembles+Pac-Man|Does+not+resemble+Pac-Man&chd=t:80,20

Voila, here it is! Just embed it in the post inside of an <IMG SRC> tag:



Edit: Fixed stray space in URL.

Edited at 2007-12-07 10:41 am (UTC)

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Addendum: There's no control over data orientation, but since it always starts at θ=0°, you can kinda fake it by splitting the "does not resemble" into two parts and shuffling the order.

http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=450x150&cht=p&chco=dd00dd,ffff00,dd00dd&chtt=Percentage+of+chart+which+resembles+Pac-Man&chl=Does+not+resemble+Pac-Man|Resembles+Pac-Man&chd=t:12,80,12

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Eeeee! Venn Diagrams!

Can the API make Chernoff faces?

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You could probably get pretty close if you used a scatter plot with shape markers.

Extra credit to the first person who APIs up something resembling a face.

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Not "fake" per se, but still junk science. I hope it counts. :)

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Hee! :D

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Since the size of the communist governments isn't given, we can assume their size does not matter.

This means we can easily control the Earth's climate by forcing a number of small municipalities to be communist and adjusting that number until we reach the optimal temperature for the planet!

Brilliant! Nobel Awesomeness Prizes for all!

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Interesting. I wonder how small a data:image/svg URL would be for that?

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So, so true.

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It didn't seem as if it could do parabolic functions easily, so I "cheated" and input a mathamatically-increasing scale instead. Besides, it's been easy to memorise a standard X^2 function in part thanks to binary and having fingers (I count to 1023 on two hands using fingers as placeholders instead of representing quantities, under a derivation of a binary number system).

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I'll give this a shot...

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That ... wow.

Good timing. I've been struggling with that very thing recently, that the more I learn about current events, and the world, and so on, the less energy I have for dealing with it in any meaningful way.

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...huh. That's truer that what I drew, actually - I was alluding to people who have strong but completely uninformed beliefs. I guess it should look more like this:

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