POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Name that font! : Re: Name that font! Server Time
7 Sep 2024 15:24:24 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Name that font!  
From: stbenge
Date: 28 Jun 2008 02:21:21
Message: <4865d861$1@news.povray.org>
Darren New wrote:
> stbenge wrote:
>> Thank you! It's frustrating trying to find a font. Someday there will 
>> be image-based search engines, where you can feed an image in and get 
>> results related to that image...
> 
> That's been around for a while.  I remember working on an IBM 
> instantiation of that a decade ago.  Just never really made it to the 
> public.

Did it at least make it to the web somewhere?

> And of course there are things coming out where you (for example) feed 
> it an image and it tells you where the image was taken, by matching it 
> against millions of Flickr images and such.

That sounds cool... for Flickr. I think it would be nice to have one 
available which encompasses the entire 'net. Even something that 
wouldn't take anything larger than, say, 50x50 pixels or something.


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