Project Verification

To backup the development and utility of the project, it will be essential to create a graphic user interface that supports the management of the data to be introduced, and an intranet that simulates Internet’s properties, as the Internet is the final and actual defender of the chosen method. The insides of this intranet would be equipped with the catalogue of stable images that cover the search for homonymous images from different iconographic stages.

The registration process of stable images will be very similar to the one used by the traditional search engines, i.e. hierarchizing the information with criteria that examine thoroughly its natural content. Thus, we obtain a base of graphic data with an important number of classified representations incorporated in definite fields such as image-photography, image-drawing, image-painting... Additionally, each field will have subdivisions containing the set of works identified by an author within a certain category.

In short, the sequence of the process that generates the search would be as follows (see illustration 7 for a more descriptive diagram):

1. Introduction of the input image through the interface (illustration 5). The best method would be importing (“pasting”) the image -transformed in a bitmap- in the maximum area of the matrix, adapting -never deforming- its dimensions to the said gridded extension. Previously, we must copied this image in the clipboard using a paint program.

Illustration 5
Graphic interface prototype. Manuel Viñas Limonchi

2. Once the appropriate mechanisms have been activated, the search begins. The collection or catalogue of images previously created is explored, and the color qualities of the input image -transcribed to numbers- are mechanically compared with the parameters that belong to each one of the stable images.

3. Once all the stable images with physical attributes within the graphic synthesis requested have been verified, we decide to receive directly from them the exact routes needed to locate the file with the requested information, i.e. the URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) indicated beforehand, when we created the catalogue. Upon finishing this operation, a list of web pages

Illustration 6
Traditional search method. Manuel Viñas Limonchi

linked to each graphic element will be displayed on our graphinder search engine. Then, we will only have to click on one of them to access the virtual space with the information.

Illustration 7
graphinder. Manuel Viñas Limonchi

Illustration 8
Search hypothesis (Bash, by E. Paolozzi). Manuel Viñas Limonchi