TinEye - the REAL image search

August 19th, 2008 by frenki

TinEye is a new web service for finding images, and what makes it different from Google Image Search is that it doesn’t look at the tags and keywords next to it: you must upload an image in order to find something similar.

There’s a video explaining it on the front page, but here’s how it works: it creates a “fingerprint” of your image based on the pixel structure. Then it compares it to the “fingerprint” database it already collected. This type of search allows for pattern recognition and incomplete matching, which in turn allows it to return even altered images as results. I don’t know does the algorithm works and probably will never too - just like Google - it’s a trade secret. But from the test results, this really works. And will probably continue to work even better as the “fingerprint” database grows and the algorithm gets refined.

A structure by Brandon Morse

August 13th, 2008 by frenki

Brandon Morse’s dynamics through procedural animation.

Essentially, it’s the stripped down two building structure with increased elasticity that are connected at the top creating sort of a tug-of-war. I really like the clean look.

G.R.L. at MoMA

August 13th, 2008 by frenki

Graffiti Research Lab had a show at MoMA. I’ts a bit “back to roots”.