Come Play Along !
Visual Contagion Team
Visual Contagions has a playful side. We have fun finding images, looking for others, discovering what made the visual everyday life of the last century.
Our ancestors needed to occupy their time and take their minds off things as much as we do.
How about solving their puzzles, trying their crossword puzzles or letting them challenge you to a game of chess?
We could also suggest you to play "spot the diffenrece", with thousands of close images, sometimes identical, sometimes different.
But we will be more pragmatic.
Why don't you test our interfaces?
On this immense corpus of images, recovered from such a large number of periodicals, that even the most stubborn historian with the longest life span would not manage to read, one can find nearly anything or ... nothing at all.
The algorithm brings up unexpected clusters, when other groups of images seem to be missing.
Thus, we expected to find very quickly the Venus de Milo, some Mondrian or such press image in our international clusters. The clusters to be observed are so numerous that we don't always have time to find these images. Is it possible that our algorithms missed them entirely? Is it the processing chain that needs to be reviewed? Or our own capacities to read this corpus so big that it ends up giving us a headache?
To solve this problem, the "Single Search" feature of the Explore platform allows to search for the precise or close presence, in the corpus, of an image whose file is loaded in .JPG or .PNG format.
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Explore - Single Search allows you to search for occurrences of an image from its url address, or by loading an image from your hard drive.
Search for your favorite image in past periodicals!
The platform is accessible at the following address:
https://visualcontagions.unige.ch/explore/duplicates/search/start/?corpus=95
How to do it?
You just have to import an image file (JPG or PNG), or to paste in the interface the address of an online image file, so that this file is compared to the images available in the corpus.
The machine will report all the images closest to your query image - ranking them according to how close they are to it.
Single Search is accessible to everyone: try it!
Feeling hot? You'll find something to cool you down. Bored? Go to a church and listen to an organ concert. Feel like exploring other horizons? The press of the past invites one to do so.
Don't hesitate to invent your own games, mimes, dances or jokes. Summer is not meant to be spent alone.
With a few clicks, you will get an idea of the possible circulations of one of your favorite images. Here is the The Mona Lisa; or the the Sleeping Bohemian by Douanier Rousseau. Use the link of an art image available on the internet in jpg format and you may be able to reconstruct the international trajectory of a work you love - and discover your vocation as an art historian...
Our own research is limited by our knowledge, our prejudices, our expectations. We are interested in your insights, your ideas and your curiosity!
And especially, share the most interesting clusters on social networks!
#Visualcontagions.
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V. The Machine's Hoaxes
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