How to See Like a Machine Catalogue

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Lens

Blindfold

Readouts

In the world

In art

Read the catalogue entry, with its figure, origin and sources.

Everything runs in this browser tab. Camera frames and photos are not uploaded anywhere. Libraries load from jsDelivr (OpenCV.js 4.10 when a technique needs it), and a few techniques fetch a model from Hugging Face or Google’s storage the first time they run.

Samples: “Tokyo crosswalk” (Ginza, 2016) by Daryan Shamkhali, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. John Vachon, Party at Carlton Nightclub, Ambridge, Pennsylvania (1941), FSA/OWI, Library of Congress, no known restrictions. Eadweard Muybridge, The Horse in Motion (1878), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; its eleven gallop frames are re-registered on the track lines so they read as one fixed camera.