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Google needs extensions. As a graphic artist, I would find it useful if there was a pattern recognition section where I could enter a shape or a color and find related shapes and colors. Google does have an image file, but it it is keyed to language, not form. I am not a musician, but, if I could hum or da-da-da a fraction of a melody into my computer microphone and get Google to locate related melodies, that would be nice.

Jan Sand

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[nq:1]Google needs extensions. As a graphic artist, I would find it useful if there was a pattern recognition section where ... of a melody into my computer microphone and get Google to locate related melodies, that would be nice. Jan Sand[/nq]
Have you tried Google's 'Advanced Image Search? It's at:

-- Christopher

http://alt-usage-english.org/AUE_gallery/chris_johnson.html

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[nq:1]Google needs extensions. As a graphic artist, I would find it useful if there was a pattern recognition section where ... find related shapes and colors. Google does have an image file, but it it is keyed to language, not form.[/nq]
Altavista used to have that option on its image search (probably using WebSeek) but stopped it. I don't know why. Here's an excellent survey of what's available: http://www.tasi.ac.uk/resources/searchengines.html.
[nq:1]I am not a musician, but, if I could hum or da-da-da a fraction of a melody into my computer microphone and get Google to locate related melodies, that would be nice.[/nq]
Suggest it to them. I'm sure that kind of service can't be too far away.

Adrian

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Thanks for the suggestions. I didn't know about them.

Jan Sand

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[nq:2]Google needs extensions. As a graphic artist, I would find ... to locate related melodies, that would be nice. Jan Sand[/nq]
[nq:1]Have you tried Google's 'Advanced Image Search? It's at: http://www.google.com/advanced_image_search?hl=en[/nq]
I looked into that and found that it is keyed to words. I was thinking of something that would scan a pattern and produce related images, much as a Rorschach test produces related images that may have no linguistic connections.

Jan Sand.

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[nq:2]Google needs extensions. As a graphic artist, I would find ... file, but it it is keyed to language, not form.[/nq]
[nq:1]Altavista used to have that option on its image search (probably using WebSeek) but stopped it. I don't know why. Here's an excellent survey of what's available: http://www.tasi.ac.uk/resources/searchengines.html.[/nq]
[nq:2]I am not a musician, but, if I could hum ... get Google to locate related melodies, that would be nice.[/nq]
[nq:1]Suggest it to them. I'm sure that kind of service can't be too far away.[/nq]
I read a review of a book, many years ago, which analysed many tunes in a simple fashion according to whether the notes went up or down or were repeated, ie SUUURDDUU etc.

I ordered it but it never arrived.

Mike - M.J.Powell

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[nq:1]Google needs extensions. As a graphic artist, I would find it useful if there was a pattern recognition section where I could enter a shape or a color and find related shapes and colors.[/nq]
Can you imagine? Shape: busty, colour: black.

Actually I just tried a Google text search on "busty black". I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised at what it produced, but I was.

-- Mike Barnes Cheshire, England

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[nq:2]Google needs extensions. As a graphic artist, I would find ... file, but it it is keyed to language, not form.[/nq]
[nq:1]Altavista used to have that option on its image search (probably using WebSeek) but stopped it. I don't know why. Here's an excellent survey of what's available: http://www.tasi.ac.uk/resources/searchengines.html.[/nq]
[nq:2]I am not a musician, but, if I could hum ... get Google to locate related melodies, that would be nice.[/nq]
[nq:1]Suggest it to them. I'm sure that kind of service can't be too far away. There is a phone number ... later you get sent a text message with the artist's name and the song title. Can't remember it off-hand though.[/nq]

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[nq:1]Google needs extensions. As a graphic artist, I would find it useful if there was a pattern recognition section where ... find related shapes and colors. Google does have an image file, but it it is keyed to language, not form.[/nq]
How could that possibly be useful to anyone? What are you going to do, search for the color red? How interesting...
[nq:1]I am not a musician, but, if I could hum or da-da-da a fraction of a melody into my computer microphone and get Google to locate related melodies, that would be nice. Jan Sand[/nq]
Yeah, and it would be nice if I could live in a castle made of gold.

Do you realize what you're asking for? You're asking for Google to go through the web and download sound files for comparison. That's not going to happen, because sound files are far too large.

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[nq:1]I am not a musician, but, if I could hum or da-da-da a fraction of a melody into my computer microphone and get Google to locate related melodies, that would be nice.[/nq]
This already exists, although not from Google. I'm working offline at the moment so I may not have time to search, but I think I have a link at home which I will try to remember to find when I return.

-- David == travelling with a temporary sig in Las Vegas

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[nq:1]I am not a musician, but, if I could hum or da-da-da a fraction of a melody into my computer microphone and get Google to locate related melodies, that would be nice.[/nq]
There was an undergraduate project at MIT recently that implemented just that. I saw it a History Channel documentary, so it might have been a few years ago.

-Jon J.

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