The English language as you've never seen it before

http://people.csail.mit.edu/torralba/tinyi...

Ever wonder what English looked like? You must check out this 'visual dictionary,' a detailed map of all 53,463 nouns in the English language, made up of nearly 80 million pictures. Each word is represented by a coloured square, created from pictures generated by putting each word into Google Images and other search engines. Only the smarties at MIT could think of something this cool!

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http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91221-1300918...

Here's an article explaining the process in, well, plain english. What does it tell us?

"The three researchers behind the ambitious project have claimed their data supports findings that people can effectively recognise objects and scenes even in very poor quality pictures."

I want this on a massive wall sized screen and an entire week to play with it.
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- abbym0308
- 1 year ago
Verbal vegetation!
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- sloan
- 1 year ago
Fascinating. Somehow, that picture is our collective memory.
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- saverio
- 1 year ago
* w o w *
all we need now is verbs, adjectives, slang and curse-words.
any volunteers?
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- ovkorrse
- 1 year ago
Thank you for that. Now it is my desktop background!
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- wiggleroomlarvae
- 1 year ago
Wow! Kind of like a photo-mosaic, but even better!
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- mattbrawn
- 1 year ago
and my elemtary teacher told me that i would never see 80million of anything at once.....how wrong she was
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- cheakywillie
- 1 year ago
http://web.mit.edu/torralba/www/gallery/gallery5.html

"Hundreds of images containing a person are averaged to reveal regularities in the intensity patterns across all the images."

Some of them remind me of the early Impressionists' paintings.
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- saverio
- 1 year ago