Behold: a nice image search tool

Via Around the corner.

Quite an impressive image search for Flickr...

Automatic image annotation

Not sure how well it annotates the images, but it definitely produces sets with high percentage of the beautiful stuff.

Non-vertical verticals

or, fixing the perspective.

All the time I was happily looking at the photos, totally unaware about the perspective, until Vint did convince me it does exist :-)

Today while surfing I have found this little gem, which caused this post to appear.

To illustrate what it does, I took a photo by Pathfinder Linden, "Immersive Archeology":



And this is how the picture looks like, after being *automatically* adjusted by the program:




Well, indeed in this case the tops of the columns on the front plane do look a bit unnatural, but still it looks quite cool, I think :-)

p.s. Kudos to the author, despite of being windows-only, the program runs just fine on linux under wine