Multicolr Search Lab: “We extracted the colours from 10 million of the most ‘interesting’ Creative Commons images on Flickr. Using our visual similarity technology you can navigate the collection by colour.” Above = photos with yellow and green.
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Multicolr Search Lab: “We extracted the colours from 10 million of the most ‘interesting’ Creative Commons images on Flickr. Using our visual similarity technology you can navigate the collection by colour.” Above = photos with yellow and green.
Bryce Kerley
on 01 Dec 08Good game: try and see how few colors you can pick to get pictures of dogs, birds, cars, and other things.
Jesse
on 01 Dec 08Pretty, but commits the first sin: no tonal range.
Wrong approach. Going nowhere.
CJ Curtis
on 01 Dec 08I think it has it’s uses. Trying to find stock photography based on color is quite often a futile process.
To an extent, you create your own tonal range. Sometimes tonal range isn’t necessarily what you’re looking for. I could see using this to find high impact photos that match up to strong color schemes.
Jesse
on 01 Dec 08Thanks for taking the time to support a service you don’t and aren’t using.
deime
on 02 Dec 08I think it’s a good toy to show their technology and not a “stand alone” webapp.
Anyway, I’m playing with it when I’m bored, it’s total eye-candy :)
Jason
on 02 Dec 08this is great. it’s definitely a fun way to just seen interesting photos on flickr, and i’ve definitely tried to find something to fit into a web space many times, but had no easy way to find something matching in color. content isn’t always the most important thing… color can be crucial to a design. match this with compfight.com and you have a pretty sweet flickr finder.
Bob
on 02 Dec 08Wow, inspiration for the day. An interesting way to look through photos for sure.
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