From Newsgroup: alt.tv.simpsons
Can't believe that there has been 15 seasons of the Simpsons and now
this new search engine. What an awesome creation, maybe I could
possibly find the time to use this.
From: EG
You don't win friends with salad, but you can probably make plenty of
new ones by becoming a Simpsons meme machine with Frinkiac, a new
search engine dedicated to the show. Just type in a few lines and
Frinkiac will match it up with screenshots from the first 15 Simpsons
seasons. It currently has over 3 million screenshots indexed, and it's
pretty easy to browse nearby images from the same episode, so you can
be sure to get the exact right moment you're looking for. Hitting the
"Make Meme" button overlays the text of the scene (which you
can also edit with your own text) to create an even more shareable
image.
As someone who references The Simpsons dozens of times a day, Frinkiac
(named after the wacky Professor Frink) is practically a godsend. Its
search function is far faster than sifting through Google images, and
the ability to find specific moments during scenes is particularly
helpful. Still, in many cases I'd probably try to use an animated GIF
instead of a plain screenshot. If Frinkiac adds that functionality
(and manages not to get taken down by Fox), I'll easily convert from
Giphy.
"The Simpsons is one of greatest television comedies of all time
and we hope that having ready access to the perfect screenshot will
make people laugh and remind them to rewatch their favorite
episodes," wrote Paul Kehrer, one of Frinkiac's developers.
As he describes it, Frinkiac works by chopping every scene into 100
sections, figuring out the average color of each section, and then
comparing them to the sections of previous images. If there are enough differences, Frinkiac saves a screenshot. So you won't be able to move
through Simpsons episodes frame-by-frame, but it's pretty close.
View the attachments for this post at:
http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=392775827#392775827
SEEN-BY: 2320/105 154/30 2320/100 0 1 227/0