OddThinking

So, I have lots of photos, and some are duplicated on several web-sites, with no reference to the original source. I want to detect matches, so I can move them (and their associated meta-data) all to a single yet-to-be-determined destination.

But here’s the snag. Some of the photos have been made into different sizes and qualities for web-viewing. It would save me time if I could automatically detect this. I need an equivalent to SoundEx that works on images, so images have the same hash even if they are resized.

How would you do that? If you answered “Google it, and find what the standard solution is”, you might be smarter than me. This article is about what I did instead.

In which Julian stumbles over the concept of Chemical Word Ladders, and proceeds to generate them.

Which requirements does SmugMug meet?

Which requirements does Zooomr meet?

Which requirements does BeenUp2.com meet?

In which Julian offers free^* beer at the first OddThinking Meet Up in Sydney, sponsored by our good friends at Google.

^* That’s not free as in freedom, it is free as in beer!

M looks grim, in his wood-panelled London office. “Bond, this is serious. SPECTRE have one of our key scientists kidnapped. They want ten of our secret programs mailed to them from around the world. For each program that fails to arrive, they will chop off one of his fingers, before he is released. He needs […]