PhotoSketch is very cool

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Five computer science students in China have created a great little utility called PhotoSketch. Learn more from this Mashable review of PhotoSketch. 

In a nutshell, PhotoSketch lets you sketch a stick figure image, and tag the elements of the image… the utility then automatically finds appropriate pictures from the internet that can be effectively composited together to achieve a photo-based version of your sketched image. At the end of the process, the utility shows you some options and gives you a chance to select the one you like best.  Here’s one example, courtesy of Gizmodo’s review of PhotoSketch. 

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Also, check out the video below... definitely worth 5 minutes.

PhotoSketch: Internet Image Montage from tao chen on Vimeo.

If you still crave more on PhotoSketch, here’s the research paper from SIGGRAPH Asia. 

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