ImgBlend

Blend similar images together.

About

Fetches images from Flickr and overlays the results on top of each other with an opacity filter.

Flickr's API allows searching by "color code". This usually results in similar-looking images. When blended together, the result is sometimes beautiful.

Screenshots

Searching for forest with the Chartreuse color code:

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Searching for amanita muscaria (a type of mushroom) with the Red color code:

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Why?

Because I was bored and wanted to learn how to create a project in PyCharm.

The old version of this project (derv82/ImageBlender) relied on Google Image Search's API which no longer works. And was also buggy.

Requirements

See requirements.txt -- depends on the flickr_api by alexis-mignon.

Setup/Install

1. You need Flickr API keys, create an account & application.
   • Store the API "key" and "secret" in a file flickr_credentials.txt in the root directory
   • First line of the .txt is the API Key
   • Second line of the .txt is the API Secret
2. python server.py to launch a server on localhost on port 8000.
3. Visit http://localhost:8000/ in your browser.