Visual Similarity Portfolio Mapper
Credits
The inspiration, photographs, people and tools behind the map.
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Inspiration
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Photography
All 3,052 photographs are by Luke Stackpoole (@withluke), who holds their copyright. They were collected with Instaloader.
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Development
Designed and developed by Sasika Amarasinghe, with the help of AI assistants Gemini and Claude.
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Technology
- Three.js
- 3D rendering of the map
- tween.js
- Camera flights and view transitions
- jina-clip-v2
- Image and text embeddings for semantic search (Jina AI)
- UMAP
- Semantic arrangement
- scikit-learn
- PCA for the colour arrangement
- RasterFairy & SciPy
- Grid layouts
- Pillow
- Image processing
- Vercel
- Search API hosting