Comments on: Sweetcode

Sweetcode

andrew cooke — Sun, 05 Jan 2003 12:34:24 -0800

Sweetcode has some sweet code: learning language by watching movies; describing images for searching by doodles; automated haiku searching; etc. New entries are sometimes far apart so use the mailing list.
disclaimer: they listed something of mine a couple of months ago (not one of their best finds) and it has been mentioned here once as an attribution, so i considered posting just the sub-links. but why give you a fish?

By: bshort

bshort — Sun, 05 Jan 2003 13:30:31 -0800

The evilfinder is simply brilliant.

By: devon

devon — Sun, 05 Jan 2003 14:03:07 -0800

So many people I'd always suspected of evil, and it's all true.

By: dolface

dolface — Sun, 05 Jan 2003 14:36:08 -0800

i check sweetcode periodically, and i think that this is far and away my favorite project, and this one is my favorite example from that project. (if you want to get super geeked out, check out " Paketto Keiretsu" about a third of the way down the sweetcode page)

By: effugas

effugas — Sun, 05 Jan 2003 17:20:34 -0800

Ah, Image Analogies. One of the better works to come out of SIGGRAPH 2001. I need to go back and try out the tools again, now that systems are ~3x as fast...they're all open source, conveniently. I suspect interesting things are possible with image compression -- forget 8x8 blocks, select a chunk and clone the rest. Dolface -- glad ya like Paketto :-) --Dan

By: shadow45

shadow45 — Sun, 05 Jan 2003 21:45:51 -0800

sweetcode is awesome.. i thought about posting it here before, but figured it wouldn't go over to well.. kudos on the size of your gonads, buddy

By: andrew cooke

andrew cooke — Mon, 06 Jan 2003 02:44:34 -0800

effugas - isn't that what fractal compression is all about (i'm guessing, as i don't know what the algorithm is behind these things - maybe it's more empirical)? that image analogy example is amazing.

By: effugas

effugas — Mon, 06 Jan 2003 05:12:03 -0800

Fractal compression seemed to be all about trial and error, if I remember right. Try to find parameters that look like existing output; when you zoom it, it should continue to look like it even smaller. Yeah, didn't work too great. IA tries to match shapes and borders in a way that matches the human mind's tendancy to split the visual field into textures and edges. Does a hell of a job, too :-) The link to compression hasn't, I think, been explored too deeply -- certainly, one can imagine the source image as a "dictionary" against which the destination is forged. Reconstruction from a dictionary, even in a lossy manner, is at the heart of many compression algorithms. Heh -- just something I'm playing with :-) --Dan