Comments on: Flickr as a paintbrush

By: Boston’s photographic colors | Bostonography

Boston’s photographic colors | Bostonography — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 15:10:30 +0000

[...] then mapped a grid of the most frequent color hues. It’s a follow-up on something I tried a couple of years ago. The method is largely unchanged, but the display is different. Every dot on this map shows the [...]

By: MiniTerp » Homicide: Life On the Street: The Real Version

MiniTerp » Homicide: Life On the Street: The Real Version — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 22:58:51 +0000

[...] Unrelated to crime maps, I am now obsessed with this Flickr as a Paintbrush link I found in our reading assignment. I wonder what the color of Baltimore is … I wish I [...]

By: Data mining social – 1

Data mining social – 1 — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:27:34 +0000

[...] nuevo conocimiento, se multiplican exponencialmente. Como muestra de esto, veamos este proyecto: Flickr as a paintbrush (Flickr como pincel). Ni más ni menos que la recuperación de fotografías geo-taggeadas en Flickr [...]

By: TiagoTiago

TiagoTiago — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:56:37 +0000

Can you make a online thing to let people get the color map of anywhere in the world that got geotagged pics avaiable please?

By: Week 5: Colour | Aesthetics

Week 5: Colour | Aesthetics — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 07:21:48 +0000

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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) [...]