80 million tiny images

21 January 2008

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a visualization of all the nouns in the English language arranged by semantic meaning. each of the tiles in the mosaic is an average of images relating to one of 53,463 nouns. large-scale groupings correspond to broad categories such as plants or people. within the plant cluster, for example, tighter semantic groupings are visible such as flowers or trees.

[link: mit.edu & mit.edu (pdf)]

see also: pixels into music, one million image masterpiece, gridlove image mosaic & montage-a-google.

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