Automatic Photo Montages

This is quite brilliant. It never would have occurred to me that such a thing as this should be built, let alone that it could be built. Nonetheless, once you see how it works and what it produces it’s quite impressive. By simply drawing shapes and associating simple keywords with those shapes the tool searches for images on Flickr, extracts parts of those images, and composites them into a final photo.

Sketch2Photo: Internet Image Montage from Tao Chen on Vimeo.