Comments on: The Colours of North by Northwest http://www.daveyp.com/blog/archives/169 Dave Pattern's weblog Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:46:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Searching for books by the colour of the cover » "Self-plagiarism is style" http://www.daveyp.com/blog/archives/169#comment-32256 Searching for books by the colour of the cover » "Self-plagiarism is style" Wed, 31 Jan 2007 20:48:38 +0000 http://www.daveyp.com/blog/index.php/archives/169/#comment-32256 [...] and Jonathan's comments on my previous post got me wondering how accurate searching by the average colour of a book cover would actually [...] [...] and Jonathan's comments on my previous post got me wondering how accurate searching by the average colour of a book cover would actually [...]

]]> By: Jonathan Rochkind http://www.daveyp.com/blog/archives/169#comment-32251 Jonathan Rochkind Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:39:28 +0000 http://www.daveyp.com/blog/index.php/archives/169/#comment-32251 Yeah, it's occurred to me before that automatically getting the average color from a book image could be an easy way to the 'holy grail' (just kidding, but it is something often talked about) of providing access by cover of book. Of course, the book image you have doesn't always _really_ match the cover on the actual item you've got. But still, it would be neat. Somebody should try that. Yeah, it's occurred to me before that automatically getting the average color from a book image could be an easy way to the 'holy grail' (just kidding, but it is something often talked about) of providing access by cover of book.

Of course, the book image you have doesn't always _really_ match the cover on the actual item you've got. But still, it would be neat. Somebody should try that.

]]> By: Iman http://www.daveyp.com/blog/archives/169#comment-32248 Iman Wed, 31 Jan 2007 03:47:10 +0000 http://www.daveyp.com/blog/index.php/archives/169/#comment-32248 thats a wonderful experiment Dave. reminded me of this work by Brendan Dawes. http://www.brendandawes.com/sketches/redux/project.html - - - one of the things the huddersfield uni librarians told me when I was interviewing them was that on occasion a student will come up to them, obviously desperate to find a particular book they once saw and theyd ask things like 'im after a book i saw last year on this floor that has a really bright green cover, can you please help me!!' Search by colour here we come! :-D thats a wonderful experiment Dave. reminded me of this work by Brendan Dawes.

http://www.brendandawes.com/sketches/redux/project.html

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one of the things the huddersfield uni librarians told me when I was interviewing them was that on occasion a student will come up to them, obviously desperate to find a particular book they once saw and theyd ask things like 'im after a book i saw last year on this floor that has a really bright green cover, can you please help me!!'

Search by colour here we come! :-D

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