2pic1

there are two pictures and you pick one

http://www.therearetwopicturesandyoupick.one/

2pic1 is a project made by lindsey woo, scott livingstone, and ian hitchcock as a project for class at red academy. it started as a bit of a joke when the team elected to build an app where there would be 2 pictures, of which the user would pick one. their classmates had many questions despite the instructions which double as the title. from there, the team built an elaborate app which randomly selects images from google and keeps track of user picks.

goal

to create a user experience that is free of purpose and direction. some people find this annoying and uncomfortable.

technical description

this is a meteor app built using react. we implemented use of google's custom search engine to generate random image comparisons and google's cloud storage to store copies of those images to preserve the integrity of the urls. we used mlabs to host our database and deployed to amazon web services ec2 using meteor up. we also are currently running the images through ibm watson to gatherer more information to be used on the stats page.

installing:

download the repository and edit the configuration file in the root named settings.json to include your google api key, google cloud service information, as well as a key for watson.
to get a new google api key, To get a custom Google Search API key visit: googleApi
cd to the directory root and install the dictionary by running: mongoimport -h 127.0.0.1 --port 3001 --db meteor --collection dictionary --type json --file dictionary.json --jsonArray
start by running: meteor --settings settings.json

todo:

finish development of stats page
release stats page