had to dig into the repo to come to the same conclusion. My first thought was, wow for your first go app you really implemented image recognition for all ever available anime?
And soon realised it must just link to a web service which already does this or he has his own webservice somewhere with much more cpu power than a tiny cli app.
I was going to say that I find it oddly specific to limit such a search technology on an image on so-called “anime” only, and now I will say that of this “trace.moe”.
I don't understand why so many websites and services do this; it's really silly.
On 4chan, various trolls love to make topics that test the definition to see if they are removed by being very technical with it.
I also tried trace.moe on The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, which is one of the most commercially successful “anime” of all time and it produced no results. So as the title suggests, perhaps it's one of those websites that says “anime”, where it actually simply means “moe art”.
Is it really silly though? The author of trace.moe has to label and store each anime episode somewhere, and use CPU power provided for free to search through these indexes. Adding regular TV series and movies to this dataset could really dirty what gets returned when the service is just about letting someone find out what anime some screenshot is from.
The FAQ says they've indexed most of post-2000 anime and very little of 80s and 90s anime. It mentions you can even use a similar drawing of the scene to get a match, due to the method they're using!
> Is it really silly though? The author of trace.moe has to label and store each anime episode somewhere, and use CPU power provided for free to search through these indexes. Adding regular TV series and movies to this dataset could really dirty what gets returned when the service is just about letting someone find out what anime some screenshot is from.
I simply quæstion the sanity of delimiting the search to animated works from a single country, and as I pointed out since it can't find something from Nils, it isn't really about that.
> The FAQ says they've indexed most of post-2000 anime and very little of 80s and 90s anime. It mentions you can even use a similar drawing of the scene to get a match, due to the method they're using!
It also couldn't find anything from The Spirits Within and Advent Children, so it's really not about “animation from Japan” but about specific art styles, it seems.
If only the reality weren't that most sources using that ridiculous term are highly inconsistent about the meaning and use it with two different meanings in the same paragraph.
If “moe art” be what one means, then simply use that word; — there is already a perfectly good word for it.
The truth is there’s no single concrete word exist for the category. Some suggest “moe art”, some say “anime”, some say “hentai”, etc. but each is interpreted differently and not inclusive nor popular.
