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Franz Enzenhofer built this cool feature that lets you draw a picture (or take a picture of yourself with your webcam) and then search Google Images using the search by image feature based on your drawing.
I decided to draw elmo, which can often turn bad because I am not a good artist. But here is a video demo of it in action:
To play with this tool yourself, go to Franz's web site.
He explained how it works:
- You draw something on an HTML5 canvas.
- Click on Search
- Image gets converted into a base64 encoded data uri
- Image data gets send to server (powered by Heroku)
- Image gets uploaded to Amazon S3
- The Amazon S3 Image URL gets communicated back to your browser.
- Browser gets redirected to Google Search by Image
Forum discussion at Google Blogoscoped Forums.
Comments:
franz enzenhofer
10/04/2011 01:56 pm
thx for covering this (and for the awesome video)
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10/05/2011 10:21 am
Well this new feature is simply great. I love it, even my little kids like it a lot and they keep on making new and different images. Its a great fun for them as well.
Amelia Stevenson
10/05/2011 01:24 pm
I just tried it and it's a lot of fun! I feel like a kid again. Seriously, while this is a great feature, I can't think of any practical uses. I'm not opposed to using it, however, just to break the monotony of office work or a dull domestic life. Hey! I just had a thought. Can the police use this to trace a wanted person?
E Leila Fatehnia
05/01/2012 08:04 am
oh ' I want to know more about how does it work ,I'm a collage student and I am studying about it but till now I did not found any thing ok about it ! pleasss HELP me :( thx