Friday, October 31, 2008

Fun with Tags* on Tag Galaxy

Tag Galaxy is a very cool image searching web site that you can use whenever you need a dose of fiber fun. This is what you see first:



I typed weaving in the search box.

Next you'll see a cool visualization of tag clouds (except rendered as the universe). Clicking on a planet or two will narrow down your search. I've got "weaving" + "loom" + "yarn".



The primary search words are the sun and other tag "planets" orbit around.

Click on the sun to see photos pulled in from Flickr to form a globe (and use the control at the top to keep pulling in new images).



You can turn the globe by clicking on it, and you can click on a photo on the globe to see a larger version with some identification. And (woohoo!!!), wouldn't you know, here is my soysilk scarf on the loom:




* FYI - The term "tag" is another word for "keyword" or "label".

Happy Friday!

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