Archive for the ‘Flickr’ Category
Friday, July 10th, 2009
An earlier article, Color Pictures in Google Books, discussed a few examples of color pictures in full-view books in GBS. Below are more examples in the areas of botany, medical botany, and dermatology.
Google Books titles with color pictures - Botany, Medical Botany
[Examples below link to screenshots in Flickr of Overview ...
Posted in Color, Flickr, Google Book Search, PicsNo, Uncategorized | No Comments »
Friday, May 1st, 2009
With its world-wide occurence and implications, Swine Flu shows up well in Newsmap. This makes it easy to see at at glance how the news media in different countries is covering the story. The screen shots below were taken at 8:00 AM this morning.
A Flickr set has larger screenshots of ...
Posted in Flickr, PicsYes, Uncategorized, Visualization, flu | No Comments »
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Poking around in Google Similar Images, I've found examples that give indications of how the system works. I've put several of these together in a Flickr set, from which the example below is taken.
The top image in each of the pairs below ("Full size image") is a choice from the ...
Posted in Flickr, Google, Image Search, PicsYes, Uncategorized, eBooks | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
"Flickr takes the sun out of the sunset" -- The picture to the left from Flickr shows the full picture and its square thumbnail, in the inset. Thumbnails like these are generated automatically by Flickr and other photo management systems. They work by taking a portion from the ...
Posted in ContentDM, Flickr, Hardin MD, Human input, Pattern recognition, PicsYes, Thumbnails, Uncategorized | 3 Comments »
