February 27, 2010
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PlaySlightly obscure/hardcore question, but hopefully enough clues here to get the answer.
Once upon a time there was a challenge. (1) was the target. (2) was the first attempt. (3) was the runner up but (4) eventually won.
Details of the challenge, please!
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Stack Overflow (the site) ran a Twitter Image encoding challenge. The goal was to create encodeing/decoding algorithims which could compress an image of the Mona Lisa into a size small enough to fit a single Tweet (140 characters).
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February 27th, 2010 at 9:43 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1267307004 )
Generating (or rather evolution of) Mona Lisa through genetic algorithms?
February 27th, 2010 at 10:23 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1267309398 )
Extreme image compression: the Twitter challenge
PS:
http://www.tineye.com/ makes it really simple these days!
February 27th, 2010 at 11:44 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1267314282 )
Stack Overflow ran a contest to produce a CODEC that could fit images into 140 characters (~535 bytes using unicode) for posting to Twitter.
Most “recognizable” image wins.
February 28th, 2010 at 1:05 am, GMT +0000 ( 1267319117 )
Extreme image compression: the Twitter challenge
February 28th, 2010 at 2:10 am, GMT +0000 ( 1267323047 )
Trials to fit an image within 140 characters using extreme image compression. Someone on Flickr came up with the challenge
February 28th, 2010 at 5:10 am, GMT +0000 ( 1267333849 )
attempts to tweet mona lisa
February 28th, 2010 at 5:13 am, GMT +0000 ( 1267334002 )
Swarm of tiny helicopter LEDs.
February 28th, 2010 at 5:13 am, GMT +0000 ( 1267334006 )
Twitter image encoding challenge by stack overflow.. competition to to compress images into a Twitter comment,
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/q.....062596732/)
February 28th, 2010 at 5:31 am, GMT +0000 ( 1267335117 )
image compression challenge… an image was to be coded into 140 characters so you could send it through twitter….
February 28th, 2010 at 6:08 am, GMT +0000 ( 1267337298 )
the twitter image encoding challenge
February 28th, 2010 at 8:13 am, GMT +0000 ( 1267344828 )
Challenge to find a general purpose system for encoding images into 140 character Twitter messages, and decoding them into an image again using Unicode characters
http://stackoverflow.com/quest.....-challenge
February 28th, 2010 at 10:16 am, GMT +0000 ( 1267352178 )
Twitter Image compression challenge. To encode the Mona Lisa into 140 character tweet.
February 28th, 2010 at 10:31 am, GMT +0000 ( 1267353074 )
Mario Klingemann (Quasimondo on Flickr) and Ralph Hauwert had the goal to write an image encoder/decoder that allows to send an image in a tweet.
2 was done by Quasimondo.
Sam Hocevar wrote img2twit,(3) which segments the image into square cells and tries to randomly assign points and colours to them until something is close.
And then Boojum wrote a nanocrunch.cpp, based on fractal compression which is 4.
February 28th, 2010 at 12:11 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1267359116 )
The Twitter image encoding challenge. Details on StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/quest.....-challenge
February 28th, 2010 at 12:32 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1267360356 )
the mona tweeta challenge and various responses.
compress an image so that it can be sent as a single tweet.
February 28th, 2010 at 4:53 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1267376005 )
Twitter image encoding challenge – how much of an image, like the Mona Lisa, can be compressed using only the 140 characters allowed in a single tweet.
February 28th, 2010 at 10:36 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1267396613 )
can you tweet a mona lisa?
February 28th, 2010 at 11:07 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1267398423 )
Encode an image in a way that it can be tweeted i.e. does not take more bits than 140 characters would.
March 1st, 2010 at 1:04 am, GMT +0000 ( 1267405499 )
The Twitter image encoding challenge. Encoding an image such that it fits into 140 characters.
March 1st, 2010 at 1:49 am, GMT +0000 ( 1267408171 )
Extreme image compression; in this case, the idea is to encrypt it into 140 Unicode characters, i.e. one tweet.
March 1st, 2010 at 5:58 am, GMT +0000 ( 1267423139 )
Stock Overflow
1. Mona Lisa
2. Quasimondo
3. img2twit
4. nanocrunch.cpp
March 1st, 2010 at 8:50 am, GMT +0000 ( 1267433450 )
“If a picture’s worth 1000 words, how much of a picture can you fit in 140 characters?”
Twitter image encoding challenge
http://stackoverflow.com/quest.....-challenge
March 1st, 2010 at 9:46 am, GMT +0000 ( 1267436787 )
The extreme image compression problem, the challenge was to compress Mona Lisa so that it could be sent over a twitter message.
March 1st, 2010 at 10:02 am, GMT +0000 ( 1267437726 )
this is the extreme image compression challenge in which people tried to encode an image so that it can be sent as a tweet…
March 1st, 2010 at 10:07 am, GMT +0000 ( 1267438030 )
Could you paint a replica of the Mona Lisa using only 50 semi transparent polygons?
Program created by Roger Alsing using Genetic Programming
March 1st, 2010 at 12:37 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1267447065 )
Challenge was to build a general purpose system for encoding images into 140 character Twitter messages, and decoding them into an image again
March 1st, 2010 at 10:32 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1267482726 )
Encoding Mona Lisa into a single tweet.
March 2nd, 2010 at 4:10 am, GMT +0000 ( 1267503045 )
Twitter Image Encoding Challenge