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By: David Alexander’s Blog » Blog Archive » Using Flickr for Colour

David Alexander’s Blog » Blog Archive » Using Flickr for Colour — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:30:52 +0000

[...] Cartogrammar.com has extrapolated dominant colours from location-based Flickr images to create colour images of the landscapes. It’s an interesting article, they’ve pulled out the colours people are looking at from the ground: This is not simply a map of the colors on the ground, which you can get from an aerial photo or systematic documentation like Google Street View, but rather a map of the colors that people on the ground are looking at. [...]

By: coopix1

coopix1 — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:55:11 +0000

Interesting,i wonder if u would use the GIS application,u can change all colors(1-255)to data(001-255),than we can depict a graphic which has all the 255 colors, finally we use interpolation to have the results.

for the selection of the colors, my advise is that u can use write a script to chose one color which is the most large in a picture

By: Vadim Zaliva

Vadim Zaliva — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:51:17 +0000

I had very similar idea few years ago and was trying to find colors associated with typical keywords on flickr. Say, fire should be red. I also faced problem of average color being dull grey and pretty much get discouraged by that and stopped there.

Great job and very neat visualizations!

By: Edward Ratzer

Edward Ratzer — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:52:48 +0000

You may want to try out the fields package in R for your smoothing. They have an example under image.smooth where they take a set of samples over a plane and smooth it.

http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/fields/fields.pdf

By: links for 2009-11-06

links for 2009-11-06 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:31:49 +0000

[...] Flickr as a paintbrush Using Flickr in unconventional ways. In this particular case it has to do with creative mapping. (tags: flickr interesting technical nerdy programming api) [...]

By: what consumes me, bud caddell » TREND: Mobile Crowdsourcing – Using Humans as Sensors

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:40:36 +0000

[...] are beginning to provide these popularity contests as well, they are based on active check-ins.) Cartogrammar takes users’ photos to paint Harvard Square based on dominant colors of geo-tagged Flickr photos. [...]

By: Cartogrammar: Revealing the Colors of our Landscape | thegraffik | Design and Illustration

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:01:46 +0000

[...] Flickr as a Paintbrush [cartogrammar.com] reveals the recorded colors of our surrounding landscape, both in a physical and cultural sense. In short, Andy Woodruff created a set of geographic heatmaps that represent the average colors of images taken on locations surrounding a specific landmark. In other words, the resulting maps reveal the colors that people on the ground should be looking at. [...]

By: hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » Landscape Maps Colourized by GPS’ed Flickr Photos

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:11:20 +0000

[...] Flickr As A Paintbrush — cartogrammar blog [...]

By: Andy Woodruff

Andy Woodruff — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:56:33 +0000

The whole Boston blob doesn’t quite go as far as Chestnut Hill Reservoir. The purple spot is centered in Allston right at Harvard and Brighton Avenues, and extending a bit west. Based a few minutes of Flickr research, I am hereby choosing to blame the Allston Village Street Fair on September 20. There seem to be some bluish-purplish photos from that. If true, it underscores what several people have said about a temporal component to all this.

By: Camgirl

Camgirl — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:13:01 +0000

Awesome project! These maps are great. re: Allston-Brighton- is that Allston-Brighton, or Chestnut Hill Reservoir? I imagine photos in that area would be pretty blue…