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Visual fields: Imagedump, design blogs, search GImages by color, Fibonacci architecture

12:12 PM Sat, Mar 28, 2009 |
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Shouldn't the words fall after they're read?


march_09_21.jpgImagedump: "a small collection of the best, funniest or coolest images" of each month. From March, above and at right. MeFi credits "a 19-year-old Dutch kid named Marco Kuiper" and commenters add that "the rest of his site is also amazingly cool."

Check out his Time wasters: 15 addictive Flash games.

 

20 Excellent Blogs for Those Who Love Design

Search Google Images by Color. At Lifehacker,

Weblog Google Operating System points out a new search option in Google Image Search that filters images by color. Color search isn't available as an operator yet, but a simple URL hack will do the trick.

To start searching Google by image color, all you have to do is append &imgcolor=colorname to the URL of a Google Image Search--where colorname is replaced by one of a number of colors of your choice. So, for example, your search URLs might look like this:

http://images.google.com/images?q=cat&hl=en&imgcolor=green

Inhabitat » Fibonacci-Inspired British National Wildflower Center. The public chose a design based on the basic math inherent in nature:


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More Fibonacci architecture.


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