Topic: Happy Birthday Daguerre

[Francois]

Yes, I'm a bit late to his party (which was on the 18th), but he would be 229 years old...
Hard to believe it was so long ago that the father of "practical photography" was born

Google art and culture did a good article on him
https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/exhibit/gQxWH0VE

[Adam Doe]

Nice! And thanks too, I didn't know that Google Arts and Culture was even a thing!

[Francois]

Yes, and their app is top notch.
And they also have their experiments site
https://artsexperiments.withgoogle.com/

One of the best ones is the degrees of separation experiment. You select two artworks and their computer AI selects all the intermediate steps that could visually lead from one to the other. An interesting way of discovering things you've never seen before.