faceted search

Image Based Filters

Filtering, aka "faceted search", has long been lists of text labels you select narrow to narrow down results. It's a very mechanical way to look at sets of things and is very rigid in the way that it decides things are or aren't part of the group. Good for picking electrical components, bad for picking wall paper. 

For more creative exploration, the use of images instead of words seems to fit better somehow. In fact you already see some sites experimenting with color swatches instead of words for their filters. I wanted to explore what filtering would be like if it were only images

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