http://www.joaobordalo.com/articles/2009/10/07/what-year-are-you-from en-us 40 Simplicity, Usability, Productivity, Code, Design, Business and more <p> PhotoSketch is an “Internet Image Montage” project from five students at Tsinghua University and the National University of Singapore. The basic premise, which they present in the form of a research paper [pdf], works like this:</p> <ul> <li>Draw the outlines of the figures you want in your picture – anything from seagulls to a wedding kiss;</li> <li>Add labels for each of the items, as well as for the background.</li> <li>PhotoSketch will then find real-life images to match your doodles and put them together in a Photoshopped image that will make your jaw drop.</li> </ul> <object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6496886&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6496886&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object> <p>And before you say "it must be fake", download and read the <a href="http://www.ece.nus.edu.sg/stfpage/eletp/Papers/sigasia09_photosketch.pdf">research paper</a> (in pdf), already evaluated by the scientific community.</p> Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:15:00 -0500 urn:uuid:1eb66641-8167-42be-a1f7-71b2df35d2fc bordalix http://www.joaobordalo.com/articles/2009/10/07/what-year-are-you-from