ISTA 301 Blog: Probably Cats

      If you haven't figured it out I'm writing some of my blogs for a class project. We're required to write about computational art related topics which is actually pretty cool. For my final project we had to actually create the art ourselves. I teamed up with Nelson Post, Marie Wilcox, Carlos Sanchez and Stephen Roda to create our visionary piece of web art. You can check it out at Probablycats.com and here is a screenshot of it.

Pretty cool right? Here's the low down on the site. Reddit.com is one that I visit on the regular because of all its interesting news and funny pictures. The only problem is that its kind of like craigslist.com where its design is very simplistic and unattractive. Well we decided to fix that and make the viewing enjoyable. Our team put together code to make it happen. First we needed to scrape the website of all its cool pictures. Easy with a little php and hours of time. We designed the website around the images giving it a hip look and easy to navigate feel. All the images are linked back to the original site if you want it from the original source. The photos are not chosen by us but rather Reddit and in actuality imgur.com. Refresh the website and it will refresh with the latest pictures. Enjoy the newest streamline way to view your favorite pictures on the web - Laters