VLM Enhanced Metadata For My Icon Galleries

Confession: I got nerd-sniped by Sam Henri Gold’s request for my icon galleries: I'd like to humbly request artwork-level searching in macosicongallery.com What follows is a train-of-thought blog post as I play with what an implementation might look like. I’ve actually long-wanted something like this, e.g. let me search for “coffee” and show me all icons that have some depiction of coffee in them. Similarly, I’ve wanted some kind of “related” representation for icons. I have this today via existing metadata, e.g. “Show me other icons in the category ‘Productivity’” or “Show me other icons tagged as ‘orange’”. But I’ve wanted a more robust representation of this, so if you were looking at an icon that had a microphone in it, the site would say “Here are other icons that also have microphones in them.” And the relationship would be rich/smart enough to know that “microphone” was meant broadly, i.e. dynamic mics, condenser mics, ribbon mics, etc. So how would you do this? I could go…

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