Tuesday 2 September 2008

80 million tiny images


This is brilliant, developed by MIT, each one of these 80 million images is an entry in a visual dictionary, just click on one image to have a visual representation about each noun in the english dictionary

"We present a visualization of all the nouns in the English language arranged by semantic meaning. Each of the tiles in the mosaic is an arithmetic average of images relating to one of 53,464 nouns. The images for each word were obtained using Google's Image Search and other engines. A total of 7,527,697 images were used, each tile being the average of 140 images. The average reveals the dominant visual characteristics of each word. For some, the average turns out to be a recognizable image; for others the average is a colored blob. The list of nouns was obtained from Wordnet, a database compiled by lexicographers which records the semantic relationship between words."

Take a look here