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Consider netflixomatic-like treatment on materials_techniques field #5

Open george08 opened 9 years ago

george08 commented 9 years ago

Could be nice if you could select individual words in rows like "Carved in teak, overlaid with black thitsi-lacquer (Melanorrhoea usitat) and gilt. Partly decorated in the relief moulded thayo and glass inlay hman-zi shwei-cha technique" OR the whole string.

From e.g. http://va.goodformandspectacle.com/things/1328

infovore commented 9 years ago

So: if we properly explode materials and techniques as per #6, then you could do string interpolation based on if a word is a listed material or technique. The only catch is that'd be pretty slow to do 'live', so perhaps it could be calculated it up front - it only needs recalculating if the URLs change, so it feels like a one off. But definitely dependent on correctly modelling materials/techniques individually, first.