Web 2.0 Playtime

[Andrea Kreuzhage]

Every now and then I come across something on our wonderful worldwide web I just have to share.

Just in: National Geographic's Infinite Photograph project (thanks, Snyder)

The Bread Art Project.

Snyder found the Color Scheme Designer v.3

"This is a great resource for artists or just for decorating. It's a very very cool tool. Just to give you an idea of how detailed it is, there is an option called "Simulate color vision deficiency" -- it shows you how people with, for example, protanopy [1% of men] see the colors. Very cool."

http://colorschemedesigner.com

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Here's another one:

Play with this: www.wordle.net

Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text, blog URLs or Feeds that you provide. In this example, I linked the RSS feed of the "recent activity" on DocuTunes...

Wordle: DocuTunes on March 26
copyright: http://www.wordle.net

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Play with this: idée multicolr search lab

It's simple: You pick up to ten colors, and the idée multicolr search lab pulls small squares from ten million "interesting" pictures on Flickr.

I tried with gray scale and shades of red and pink... The multicolr search lab is synonymous with everything I LOVE about the internet… and now I can color this love in all shades of pink! Or green, or blue... On top of the addictive fun, this is a cool tool to try out color combos.

There's more at idée labs... check it out: labs.ideeinc.com

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More toys mentioned in the below comments:

www.shapecollage.com, a utility software (all platforms) to create photo collages; added by Thaw.

www.jamstudio.com, an online music factory to create simple loops by just clicking a few buttons; added by Snyder.

[Snyder]

Playing around on the National Geographic site this morning, I came across this nifty little project. It's an infinite mosaic done from pictures of the world. It takes a little time to load, but it is worth the wait. Simply click on a portion of the image and you keep clicking deeper and deeper into new images.

http://www.thegreenguide.com/infinite-photograph

[Andrea Kreuzhage]

I like this Russian doll of photography a lot! The My Shot gallery on National Geo has 54,000 members, but where are you? (There's an Alex Snyder.) Submit, please, so we can play Memory games with your pictures.

[Snyder]

A free 'Make Your Own Superhero' feature :) HeroMachine 2.5