#terrapattern

TERRA #1

Art project by Matteo Zamagni uses the Unreal graphics engine to generate realtime effects to abstract 3D terrapatterns:

The first of a series of iterations on the exploration of real-time Environments for live art performances. All the content have been performed live with Unreal Engine and subsequently edited for demonstration purposes. The sequence of events, lighting, environment, atmosphere, and so forth change accordingly to sound or triggered remotely live via OSC at all times. 

Terrapattern: I included a link to SF, for the reader here. It is a visual search engine for satellite imagery. 

Discussion on boulder route setting in North America vs Europe. American comps are super big and burly moves. European is more finesse. 

Terrapattern lets people search for patterns otherwise hidden in troves of publicly available satellite imagery. It works a lot like Google’s reverse image search: click on a map tile, and the tool searches for satellite imagery with similar visual attributes. 

For example, if you click on a purple tennis court in San Francisco, Terrapattern will surface dozens of examples of similar tennis courts in the area and show their locations on a map. Like many recent computer vision projects, Terrapattern uses something called a convolutional neural network to make sense of what it’s looking at.

Great project: Golan Levin (@golan) on Terrapattern - visual similarity search for satellite imagery.