Browsing through I was surprised to see just how many different Flickr applications there were available, allowing some unusual ways of working with images. First up I found an application (name since forgotten & which I can no longer locate unfortunately!) that selected images based on a simple graphic representation drawn by the user in a box, like a simplified version of MS PAINT. While it is hard to imagine a practical application for this tool, it was kind of weird to see dots become eyes, and badly drawn spirals morph into ripples on water.
Next up I tried Flickr Colour Picker by Jim Bumgardner. This tool generates random images based on a section of the colour spectrum defined by the user. I'm thinking this could be potentially useful for designing a montage for a webpage, where ambience or ‘feel’ is more important that the actual subject or content of the images, but again it's just interesting to play around with...
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