[Clipart] tag you're it (fwd)

[Jon Phillips]

On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 18:38 -0400, AJ Ashton wrote:
> Michael Moore wrote:
>  > Example:
>  > After the game, I view my results and see that "circle" was one of the
>  > tags for the dartboard. I could flag it as wrong since it's not an
>  > obvious tag for a dartboard. If circle were flagged as wrong a certain
>  > number of times, it would be dropped from the tags list.
> 
> Personally I think such generic tags can be useful when doing advanced 
> searching in order to narrow down results.
> 
> Example: you are working on a logo for a store called "Sports World" and 
> you want to replace the circular parts of the letters 'p' 'o' and 'd' 
> with sports/games-related objects that are circular. You could search 
> for something like "sport game +circle", and your results would include 
> baseballs, golf balls, dart boards, and the like, but not a rugby ball 
> or a golf club or a tennis racket.
> 
> Of course that's a simple example, and you might just search for the 
> individual objects (or browse the 'Sports' category), but the results 
> could return useful and inspirational images that you would never have 
> thought of. It also saved you some time by not having to sift through 
> hundreds of useless, non-circular images (or not having to do four or 
> more separate searches). Perhaps there is a better way of doing this, 
> but I know many stock photo web sites include basic tags such as 'blue' 
> and 'copy space' in order to allow for more specific results.
> 
> Maybe have a way to allow for overly-generic or overly-specific tags, 
> but not include them in the game (or make them bonus points in the game?).
> 
> AJ Ashton

All this is cool...anybody up for coding it? I can help anyone get
started if using ccHost? This sounds like a fun ajax'y project :)

Jon

> 
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