One Million Screenshots
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Summary
Nathan Rooy created a collection of one million screenshots from small web sites, avoiding popular domains. Screenshots were captured with Playwright, visual embeddings generated via a custom triplet loss encoder, and organized using self-organizing maps (SOMs) with parallel color distribution for layout.
Highlights
- Curates one million screenshots specifically from the small web to bypass the noise of popular, ad-driven sites.
- Employs Self-Organizing Maps with parallel color distribution to organize visual embeddings into a coherent layout.
- Uses a custom triplet loss encoder to generate visual embeddings that capture micro-placement similarities.
- Provides a zoomable interactive map at screenshots.nry.me for exploring the visual landscape of the small web.
- Contrasts the small web with mainstream platforms, arguing that substance often outweighs click-through rates in niche corners of the internet.
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Audience
Web Developers, Data Scientists, Digital Archivists, Web Researchers
DomainWeb Technology
Formatinteractive tool
Accessfree online
Topics
Related
Common CrawlPlaywrightSelf-Organizing MapsVisual Embeddingsonemillionscreenshots.com