Category Archives: ImageCollection
Irene Alvarado :: Image Collection :: Teenie Harris Explorations
This was mostly an analytical project where I wrangled with much of the Teenie Harris archive and went from having a 1.5 TB unusable database to a manipulable database with some metadata.
Warmup
I received a 1.5 TB hard drive …
Dan Moore
10 May 2016
For Golan’s large image database assignment I scrapped 000000book.com database of GML tags and generated several TSNE grids of the data. First I generated all of the GML Tags as 256 by 256 pixel images and ran them through the …
Christopher Wei
04 May 2016
I chose EcstasyData.org as my large image database which provided data for around 4200 ecstasy pills and other recreational drugs, 3969 of which (at the time I scraped the website) had images associated with each entry.
After scraping all the …
Zachary Rispoli
29 Apr 2016
I t-SNEed the BodyParts3D 3D models that I was working with earlier to make the Post Human Bot.
Here’s an “x-ray” I made from a t-SNE grid of bones:
And here are some renders of the bones t-SNEed to …
Shouvik Mani
11 Apr 2016
Skyscrapercity Building Image Classification
I built a program that scrapes images of under-construction buildings from Skyscrapercity and uses machine learning to classify them as night/day images and skyline/individual images. It is my first personal machine learning project, and I’m amazed …
Generating stories from Japanese Woodblock Prints
I worked with the collection of Japanese woodblock prints on Ukiyo-e. I scraped images from individual galleries listed on this website- the Museum of Fine Arts, British Museum, and the Edo Tokyo Museum, to name a few. The generic …
Safinah Ali
07 Apr 2016
Growing album is a video of 11k album covers growing in saturation and complexity. The idea is to show a ‘growth pattern’ of sorts in album cover design.
The image visualization project was a series of trials and errors for …
Kevin Karol
07 Apr 2016
7 Years of CMU School of Drama
For my visualizations, I decided to create a set of small multiples comparing productions in CMU’s School of Drama. 17,000 images were scrapped from the School of Drama’s private flickr account, which after …
20th century playing cards from the Cooper Hewitt
I explored the Cooper Hewitt database that contains over 200,000 images and found 2 image sets I was interested in: posters and playing cards. I decided to work with playing cards. This dataset contained around 2000 images of playing cards …