12.04.2010

Reverse Image Search

TinEye is a reverse image search engine. It finds exact or near-exact copies of the image you search down to the pixel. It doesn't find everything.So I thought about using it to see how alike my collages were to the images I sourced them from, all of which I got on the internet somewhere. 

When I searched this image:


I find the image I used for the background:



TinEye also sorts the search results by size so I can find the biggest version of that image on the internet. 

GazoPa uses a looser algorithm. I searched one of my abstract pieces and got back chinese food.


And I got back chinese food:




I like how the images GazoPa comes up with are pretty random, but they're still abstractly related, in whatever concrete way their algorithm decides, to your original image.

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