Art masterpieces in your browser tabs. Picasso replaces Chrome's default New Tab page with a wide selection of art masterpieces and shows you a new painting every day. The images are provided by Wikiart.
Install the current version from the Chrome Web Store.
The project is split in three parts:
- Chrome extension:
- Fetches a batch of image urls from the server and stores them in a queue using the local storage.
- The next N images are cached by converting them to data URIs.
- If the queue gets too small, new image urls are fetched.
- Server:
- Given an offset, the server returns the next batch of images.
- An image contains the image url and its metadata.
- ImageSelection:
- Fetches images from Wikidata and filters the results based on aspect ratio and size.
- Results are saved in a CSV file and used by the server.