This work is from the same year, also really interesting: http://sebastianschmieg.com/searchbyimage/
I'm Google – chains of visually similar images and videos in Google (2011)
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Re: I'm Google – chains of visually similar images and videos in Google (2011)
#32It would be nice if you could change the seed image. Someone needs to automate this.
Re: I'm Google – chains of visually similar images and videos in Google (2011)
#33I am oddly reminded of Pollard's rho algorithim[1], you start with a base image and only choose the first image that comes up in the result, in the end we will eventually return to an image that we have already traversed. I wish someone could find the base images that result in the shortest and longest cycles. [1]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Pollard_...
My guess is the shortest would usually be the very next one since Google Image is good at finding the same image file in different websites. There would have to be a constrain for how close to the last image the next one is or you'd end up in a one image loop.
Re: I'm Google – chains of visually similar images and videos in Google (2011)
#34Kevin Bacon
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#35Kevin Bacon
Re: I'm Google – chains of visually similar images and videos in Google (2011)
#36My thoughts exactly. What a waste of time
Urgh... talk about giving tech people a bad reputation as philistines. It's a wonderful, thoughtful project.
It is a wonderful, thoughtful project, but it's an art project.
While that's great, I don't come to Hacker News for the latest interesting art project.
I think like many people that clicked the link and scrolled through the images, we made the assumption that these were put together using some algorithm that mined Google's 'visually similar' search and then somehow found the best results in order to create a set of images that 'flowed'.
It's a little disappointing to learn otherwise, but it's now kicked off a train of thought about how I might automate something similar. :-)
Re: I'm Google – chains of visually similar images and videos in Google (2011)
#37Aww man, I thought this really was pure algorithms, not manual curation. It is still a wonderful project but my awe is gone. Would be great to see it as a real bot.
Write it!
Re: I'm Google – chains of visually similar images and videos in Google (2011)
#38I'm assuming porn is filtered out. Given that porn represents the vast majority of Internet content, it would be curious to see how quickly a sexually explicit image would pop up, and how funny the connection with the previous non sexual image would be.
i don't think porn constitutes the vast majority of internet content by any means, or even the majority at all.
Re: I'm Google – chains of visually similar images and videos in Google (2011)
#39Reminds me of http://translationparty.com/ which converts between Japanese & English using google translations
Re: I'm Google – chains of visually similar images and videos in Google (2011)
#40A few scrolls down there is "This video was removed by Youtube for privacy reasons".. does the related image algorithm still use what image was there, for calculating next image?