{"id":1664,"date":"2008-10-31T20:06:41","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T20:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/?p=1664"},"modified":"2008-10-31T20:16:10","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T20:16:10","slug":"pixolu-image-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/31\/pixolu-image-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixolu &#8211; Image Search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday afternoon. Time to read a couple of journal articles. Nah, time for some online exploration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/5069638\/pixolu-finds-images-by-similarity\">LifeHacker<\/a> describes an interesting image search tool &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pixolu.de\">Pixolu<\/a>. It works like this.<\/p>\n<p>1) You enter a term and locate images related to that search term.<\/p>\n<p>2) Based on the image collection returned, you then select a prototype image you like and Pixolu searches for images that are more similar to the prototype.<\/p>\n<p>3) You then move to the location of images that suit your need\/interest.<\/p>\n<p>Cool!<\/p>\n<p>I started with &#8220;Uluru&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/pixolu1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1665\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/31\/pixolu-image-search\/pixolu1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/pixolu1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"324,199\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"pixolu1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/pixolu1.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1665\" title=\"pixolu1\" src=\"http:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/pixolu1-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/pixolu1-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/pixolu1.jpg 324w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/pixolu2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1666\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/31\/pixolu-image-search\/pixolu2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/pixolu2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"324,270\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"pixolu2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/pixolu2.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1666\" title=\"pixolu2\" src=\"http:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/pixolu2-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/pixolu2-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/pixolu2.jpg 324w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_1664\" class=\"pvc_stats all  \" data-element-id=\"1664\" style=\"\"><i class=\"pvc-stats-icon medium\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" data-prefix=\"far\" data-icon=\"chart-bar\" role=\"img\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 512 512\" class=\"svg-inline--fa fa-chart-bar fa-w-16 fa-2x\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M396.8 352h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V108.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v230.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zm-192 0h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V140.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v198.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zm96 0h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V204.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v134.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zM496 400H48V80c0-8.84-7.16-16-16-16H16C7.16 64 0 71.16 0 80v336c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h464c8.84 0 16-7.16 16-16v-16c0-8.84-7.16-16-16-16zm-387.2-48h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8v-70.4c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v70.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8z\" class=\"\"><\/path><\/svg><\/i> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/page-views-count\/ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday afternoon. 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It works like this. 1) You enter a term and locate images related to that search term. 2) Based on the image collection returned, you then select a prototype image &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/31\/pixolu-image-search\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pixolu &#8211; Image Search<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_1664\" class=\"pvc_stats all  \" data-element-id=\"1664\" style=\"\"><i class=\"pvc-stats-icon medium\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" data-prefix=\"far\" data-icon=\"chart-bar\" role=\"img\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 512 512\" class=\"svg-inline--fa fa-chart-bar fa-w-16 fa-2x\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M396.8 352h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V108.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v230.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zm-192 0h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V140.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v198.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zm96 0h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V204.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v134.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zM496 400H48V80c0-8.84-7.16-16-16-16H16C7.16 64 0 71.16 0 80v336c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h464c8.84 0 16-7.16 16-16v-16c0-8.84-7.16-16-16-16zm-387.2-48h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8v-70.4c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v70.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8z\" class=\"\"><\/path><\/svg><\/i> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/page-views-count\/ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-1664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-images"],"a3_pvc":{"activated":true,"total_views":46,"today_views":0},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zo8Q-qQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1668,"href":"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions\/1668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}