It seems like just yesterday I was writing about Creative Commons and photography. But it wasn’t, it was actually the day before yesterday! And now I have another update. Image identification and visual search software company Idée have added to their Idée Multicolr Search on the exciting Idée Labs, expanding the Flickr Set to include 10 million Creative Commons images from Flickr’s ‘Interestingness‘ collection.

On their blog they beg the question, ‘What’s even better than a Multicolr search lab with 3 million interesting images?’ The answer? One with 10 million Creative Commons images!

Search based on your favourite colour combinations, find fantastic images, discover new photographers and all the images you find will be Creative Commons photographs! How cool is that?

Simply click colours you want in the photos and it queries the collection to find them. You can add up to 10 colours. Check out their blog for a really good overview of how the search system works! First they find images with black (#ffffff) and white (#000000), then they thrown in a bright pink (#C73E77). They also illustrate a blue (#3761FA, #84A5FC ,#2644A5) and grey (#717171, #AFAFAF, #F7F7F7, 1D1D1D) tones search and a yellow and purple (#6A259A, #F2EB35, #F2EB35, #F2EB35) search heavily weighted to yellow (and vice-versa (#6A259A, #541D79, #541D79, #F2EB35)). Very exciting!
(Thanks to Cameron Perkins. I found out about this via his post on the CC blog)