OpenID11 items tagged “photos”
Help pick the best photos, but watch out, it’s addictive! My favourite WildlifeNearYou feature yet—our new tool asks you to pick the best from two photos, then uses the results to rank all of the photos for each species. It’s surprisingly addictive—we had over 5,000 votes in the first two hours, peaking at 4 or 5 votes a second. The feature seems to be staying nice and speedy thanks to Redis under the hood. Photos in the top three for any given species display a medal on their photo page. 
25th January 2010, 12:36 am
PhotoSketch turns a rough sketch in to a photo montage (via) Computer vision is really exciting at the moment—Photosketch is an application which takes a rough labeled sketch, finds images matching the labels, filters them by the sketched shapes and composes them in to a not-too-bad photo montage. As wmf on Hacker News points out, “this technology has epic potential in the LOLcat market”. 
6th October 2009, 7:59 am
Building Rome in a Day (via) “The first system capable of city-scale reconstruction from unstructured photo collections”—computer vision techniques used to construct 3D models of cities using 10s of thousands of photos from Flickr. Reminiscent of Microsoft PhotoSynth. 
29th July 2009, 3:41 pm
Slouching towards Bethlehem. Photos of the various installations that contributed to the construction of the first atom bomb. 15th July 2009, 10:19 am
Large Hadron Collider nearly ready—The Big Picture. Stunningly beautiful set of photographs of the LHC. I love Big Science. 1st August 2008, 7:46 pm
A Look at the Presidential Candidates. The Big Picture (the Boston Globe’s fantastic photojournalism blog) presents a fascinating collection of historical photos of Senators Barack Obama and John McCain. 4th July 2008, 9:09 pm
Video on Flickr! There’s a 90 second length limit, because “... Flickr is all about sharing photos that you yourself have taken. Video will be no different and so what quickly bubbled up was the idea of long photos, of capturing slices of life to share.” 
9th April 2008, 1:16 pm
Flickr: The Commons. Exciting pilot collaboration with the Library of Congress to release images with “no known copyright restrictions”. The header photo (of a bench) is one of my favourite spots in the world, in Mission Dolores Park, San Francisco. 16th January 2008, 9:38 pm
Photos taken in Brighton on Flickr! (via) The new Flickr Places feature has finally launched, and it’s absolutely beautiful. 21st November 2007, 8:28 am
My Washington D.C. photos. Touristy photos. Includes squirrels... and ENIAC! 4th April 2005, 1:43 am
My photos of squirrels. I like squirrels, and I’ve started playing with Flickr. 30th August 2004, 4:29 pm
