retrievr

Originally uploaded by georgeaye.
I usually don’t like to making content from someone else’s content, but of late, there’s been lots of goodies that I just gotta share.

Thanks to Jason Feifer (of Happy Scrappy fame) for posting this first, “A bettr pictr searchr“.

As if there weren’t enough good reasons to love Flickr already, some super smarty arty has created a working prototype of a sketch based image retrieval system that interrogates Flickr’s databases for results. And the results are wild.

Draw some thing on the left and the results based on that sketch show up on the right.

I quietly shit myself when I saw this in action. It appears to be searching from a fixed subset of Flickr images (as opposed to the entire, perpetually growing database) and then I can only guess that it’s searching on RGB pixel values and ratios.

retrievr.

Word to your respective mothers.