![]() The new site is named for the men and women who used these decorative and illustrative tools as they constructed eighteenth-century books: the compositors.Ĭompositor contains two new ways of searching the database:ġ. The database of eighteenth-century printers’ ornaments formerly known as Fleuron has found a new home at .uk! The new name reflects the fact that there is a lot more in the database beside fleurons (or ornamental type), such as block ornaments (head and tailpieces, initial letters), factotums, rules, borders, and some woodcut illustrations, diagrams, and other examples of eighteenth-century graphic design. ![]() Click “this book” to see where your ornament came from, back on the main Compositor site.įrom there, you can launch the Visual Search again, and continue investigating matching ornaments.Ĭompositor’s visual search engine is powered by VISE, a tool developed by the Visual Geometry Group at the University of Oxford. At the bottom of the page, you’ll see the phrase “This ornament was extracted from this book“. ![]() Underneath your match, on the right, is the ornament’s ID number.Ĭlick the number to see the ornament full screen. So, you’ve found a match for your original ornament, and you’d like to see the details of the book it came from? Simply click the match you want to investigate, and you’ll see the three side-by-side images again. This will show less exact matches (if any exist). To see if there are any images that are similar to your search query, but not quite so alike, lower the “Score Threshold” and try again. On the left is your original ornament on the right is the match you clicked on you can click on the middle image to toggle between the two, allowing you to easily pick out minor variations that might not be obvious side by side. For this ornament there are 32 similar images.Ĭlick on a match and this is what you’ll see: You’ll see matching images from the database. You could highlight a small detail, or if you want to see images that are like the whole ornament, just draw a large box, like this… Once the Visual Search page has opened, use your cursor to highlight the area of the ornament you’d like to see similar images to. Here is an example:įrom here, click “Load Ornament in Visual Search”. Here’s how.įind an ornament you’d like to find matches for in Compositor. You can now search Compositor visually, allowing you to find matching and similar ornaments from the database.
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