When we demonstrate PlinkArt to friends, there isn’t always a famous painting nearby to take a picture of. So we thought we’d put together a few sample images that you can use to test the app.
Without a painting handy, so far everyone we’ve shown the app to has taken a photo of a friend instead. PlinkArt only knows about famous paintings, so it returns the most similar one it can find. Given that European painters spent hundreds of years painting religious figures, normally this is a saint – except in the case of one poor fellow who apparently bears a close resemblance to a Campbell’s Soup Can. (Really, for these searches the system knows that it hasn’t found a good match, so we could return a “nothing found” page. But people were having so much fun figuring out what famous portrait they looked like that we decided to leave it in!)
So far, the first thing most people do with PlinkArt is to take a picture of have done is to take