Comments on: Found Photos http://timgrey.com/blog/2008/found-photos/ Thoughts on Photography, Digital Imaging, and Travel Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:00:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: bryn http://timgrey.com/blog/2008/found-photos/#comment-1394 bryn Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:14:42 +0000 http://timgrey.com/blog/?p=22#comment-1394 I agree that human consistency foils many a plan. I definitely like the serendipity of finding what I wasn't looking for as well. Though I have to say faster loading/browsing of thumbnails would be nice, as would the ability to quickly dispatch groups of things (like I know I'm not looking for anything in this sub folder, or don't show me anything that has a metadata taken date before x/x/0x but show me all the ones that don't have a date). It seems like GPUs could be leveraged for faster scaling of images when you want to see more than a thumbnail, and on 64 bit machines with lots of memory, why can't we have it load all thumbnails in to memory while we are going to get coffee? I agree that human consistency foils many a plan. I definitely like the serendipity of finding what I wasn’t looking for as well. Though I have to say faster loading/browsing of thumbnails would be nice, as would the ability to quickly dispatch groups of things (like I know I’m not looking for anything in this sub folder, or don’t show me anything that has a metadata taken date before x/x/0x but show me all the ones that don’t have a date). It seems like GPUs could be leveraged for faster scaling of images when you want to see more than a thumbnail, and on 64 bit machines with lots of memory, why can’t we have it load all thumbnails in to memory while we are going to get coffee?

]]> By: Art http://timgrey.com/blog/2008/found-photos/#comment-1366 Art Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:23:58 +0000 http://timgrey.com/blog/?p=22#comment-1366 I certainly concur with the nature of your "browsing" experience. Any archive/retrieval program I ever run into always seems to be able to be defeated by simple human inconsistency. That is, our "mood of the moment" often influences any structure (metadata if you prefer) that might be applied to our images. As you described, our general forgetfulness leaves a gapping hole in our ability to summon and retrieve each and any image we have ever archived. In the end we all need to resort to the basic "shoebox storage search" from time to time. What are our options for a simple shoebox search? I've seen a couple applications that contain similarities that might be leveraged for such a purpose: the Picasa revolving rolodex for folders and the Vista "window scroll [Cntrl Tab]." It seems that rapid scanning of "thumbnails" might be achievable with the hardware/software resources of today. I certainly concur with the nature of your “browsing” experience. Any archive/retrieval program I ever run into always seems to be able to be defeated by simple human inconsistency. That is, our “mood of the moment” often influences any structure (metadata if you prefer) that might be applied to our images. As you described, our general forgetfulness leaves a gapping hole in our ability to summon and retrieve each and any image we have ever archived. In the end we all need to resort to the basic “shoebox storage search” from time to time.

What are our options for a simple shoebox search? I’ve seen a couple applications that contain similarities that might be leveraged for such a purpose: the Picasa revolving rolodex for folders and the Vista “window scroll [Cntrl Tab].” It seems that rapid scanning of “thumbnails” might be achievable with the hardware/software resources of today.

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