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This is really cool new technology.

What if you could draw some stick figures on a screen and somehow magically create a beautiful image montage?

Well, it’s possible.

A group of students in China have created PhotoSketch, a project that does exactly what I just described: it takes a rough, hand-drawn sketch, scours the web for photos that match, and runs them through an algorithm, stitching it all together. Watch this video presentation, you will not regret it:

PhotoSketch: Internet Image Montage from tao chen on Vimeo.

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