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Neal AgarwalMotion & interaction

Wiki Spy

By Neal Agarwal, Wiki Spy turns Wikipedia’s cutout object archive into an endless I-spy canvas. A minimal header keeps a search box (“red, transportation, animals…”) and shuffle control above a white field packed with overlapping PNG cutouts at varied scale. Useful reference for serendipitous discovery UI, visual search over huge corpora, and playful data browsers that reward wandering instead of list pagination.

What's interesting

  • Explore nearly 44,000 isolated Wikipedia object images in chaotic collages: search by color or theme, or shuffle the field.
  • Wiki Spy turns Wikipedia’s cutout object archive into an endless I-spy canvas.
  • A minimal header keeps a search box (“red, transportation, animals…”) and shuffle control above a white field packed with overlapping PNG cutouts at varied scale.

Tags

ExplorationWikipediaVisualizationSearchPlayfulInteractive