It's not often that I'd consider adding pure "eye candy" to the OPAC, but I couldn't decide what would be the best way of making this tag cloud functional. So, I made an executive decision and decided it shouldn't be functional If you run a keyword search on our OPAC, at the foot of the [...]
Posts under ‘Eye Candy’
Book covers, revisited
Just spotted that Tim is busy working on something that I dabbled with last February: www.colourphon.co.uk I'm actually in the midst of revisiting my code, as I want to automate a way of locating visually similar images from the "1000 Frames of Hitchcock" project, e.g.: Anyway, today seemed like a good opportunity to return to [...]
Hours of innocent fun…
…are to be had at librariandressup.com! Many thanks to Amy — whose current Facebook status is "face of an angel and the mouth of a sailor" — for the link (possibly via Phil Bradley?)
"Spin, spin, spin the Wheel of Justice…"
Kudos if you automatically sang to yourself "…see how fast the bastard turns" If you've no idea what I'm on about, then YouTube is your friend. Anyway, I got to playing around with the OPAC keyword cloud data and ImageMagick and came up with this (reload that web page to get a new image)… I [...]
Tasty mash-up
I must admit that when I think of a "mash-up", food rarely enters my head (even though most people in the UK associate the word "mash" with mashed potato). Anyway, what do you get if you mash-up the following: a picture, an RSS feed, Helene Blowers, a cake? Just in case no-one said this on [...]
"North by Northwest" squished
After reading Brendan Dawes' "Analog In, Digital Out", I've revisited the colours of "North by Northwest" (see earlier blog post). Rather than squish every frame to a single horizontal line, this time each frame is squished vertically — see if you can spot the "crop duster" sequence: ( full sized version on Flickr )
More "In their own words"
Here's a few more… Michael Stephens: Helene Blowers: David Lee King: Meredith's book:
Librarians — in their own words
I've spent the last couple of days being inspired by Brendan Dawes' book "Analog In, Digital Out", and playing around with ImageMagick and PerlMagick. This evening, I felt like doing something for Kathryn Greenhill to commiserate with her for not winning the "Best Librarian/Library Blog" Edublog awards, so here's what you get if you take [...]
OPAC keyword cloud
This is crying out to be done like the visual word map in AquaBrowser, but here's a browseable tag cloud based on data from nearly 2 million keyword searches on our OPAC. The code looks for other keywords that were entered as part of the same search (e.g. "ethics of nursing care") to draw out [...]
Sunset over Huddersfield
Come the End of the World, I suspect the sky might look a little like it did this evening… (more images)