Visualizing User-Generated Content to Better Understand Humanity – Kaptur

When I saw it in 2005, exactly 10 years ago, I had this “aha” moment and I imagined: What if I could take all digitized Renaissance paintings from, let’s say, 1500 to 1600 in Italy, and put them on this wall, and use computer vision to sort them by color, content, composition, and actually have a better understanding of what the Renaissance was? This was even before social media exploded.