Artwork recognition, Plink.

April 14, 2010

The 12th of April the Plink’s blog announced that the project PlinkArt has been bought by Google!

Plink is an amazing application for mobile able to recognize any famous artwork simply by taking a picture. After reading the news I couldn’t wait to try it myself! In just 4 minutes I realized how amazing and revolutionary is this software! I took my HTC Hero, opened the “Market” application, typed “Plink” on it and in 2 minutes I had PlinkArt installed on my phone … I searched for any book around me and I found “Erotism” by the french writer Bataille, after taking a snapshot of the cover using PlinkArt in 30 seconds I got a list of results: all about the paining on the book’s cover. Clicking on any of the results I was redirected to Wikipedia where I could enrich my knowledge about the famous work of art.

After my excitement for this fabulous tool I wrote this article without thinking twice, stealing 10 minutes to my daily work.

Plink runs on any Android phone. According to Wikipedia the project has been started by Mark Cummins and James Philbin and won the Education/Reference category of the Google ADC2 (Android Developer Challenge 2). The project was at first awarded by Google with a donation of 100.000 USD and finally bought by the Mountain View’s company. I suggest all those who love art to try it!

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