On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 20:38:25 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 23:42:35 +0300, Doncho N. Gunchev > <mr700@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > No, it finds exact duplicates, not similar files. With gqview you get > > info like pic1.jpg is 98% similar to pic0.jpg. I have two pictures for > > tests - first only with one object on clean background and the second > > with the same object on colored background. Gthumb finds nothing. > > cough... technically... that sounds like a bug in gqview to me. > Because the feature is 'find duplicates'... not 'find 90% or more > similar based on some magic algorithm that might be what i mean when I > think of similar since well similar could be defined > about 300 different similar but not exactly duplicate ways and and > tweaking of the algorithm over time with different releases would > result in strikingly different results being presented to the user so > its more a sense of artistic style than a really quantative > comparison'. Nah. It's a well-designed feature. Please take a look at gqview before commenting on it. The "find duplicates" feature can be customized. You can choose from different comparison criteria. Finding exact duplicates (= "similarity 100%") is possible, too, of course.
