January 25, 2008
Posted in Writing Comments
Cow Shark
Now this is cool.
A. Torralba, R. Fergus, W. T. Freeman at MIT have collected 80,000,000 pictures representing the meanings of the 53,463 nouns in the English language, and presented them for our perusal in the form of a clickable abstract pattern!
When you get there, the very bright blue splotch at the center near the bottom is mostly sharks. The first one I clicked on was Cow Shark. I couldn’t find it again, though. More tragic, I clicked randomly on the word "nympholept,’ then clicked away again before taking the time to note how it was depicted graphically. I couldn’t find it again, so now I may never know.


