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This Gist is my living collection of ideas for what you could put on information screens besides just information.
No matter if it's a screen that is otherwise displaying smart home states or a digital picture frame that you got as a gift at some point and finally managed to hack and which now needs content that is better than your own mediocre family photos.

In the medium term, the goal is to find useful, easy-to-use sources for all the ideas listed and then possibly compile them into a dedicated HTTP API.

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  • Nature
    • Geometric shapes in nature (beehives, sunflowers, etc.)
    • Plants
      • Tropical Reefs
      • Backlit leaves
      • Forests
    • Animals
      • Extinct animals
      • Interesting animals
        • Cows
        • Frogs
        • Alligators
        • Birds
          • Owls
          • Ducks
          • Penguins
        • Insects
          • Butterflies
          • Moths
          • Dragonflies
      • Cute animals
        • Rabbits
        • Bunnies
        • Cats
        • Pandas
          • Red pandas
        • Raccoons
        • Foxes
          • Platinum foxes
        • Hamsters
        • Capybaras
        • Squirrels
        • Otters
      • Microscopic images of organisms (journey into the microcosmos)
  • Technology
    • Microscopic images of integrated circuits or micro-mechanical devices
    • (Pretty) PCBs
  • (Pop) Culture
    • Historic/dated visions of the future
    • (Fake) (IKEA) instructions
    • Same sky postcards
    • Contemporary Media
      • Album covers
      • Movie posters
      • Stills from movies
      • Weird stock photos
      • Anime
        • Food
        • Landscapes
        • Animals/Creatures
    • Abstract/Art
      • “Cube worlds”
      • Tilt shift photos
      • Warped perspective photos
      • Literal artwork scans from museums
      • Vector art
      • Bauhaus
      • Solarpunk
      • Skateboard decks
      • Bowling balls
      • “communist utopia”
      • Pomological (drawings of historic fruit)
  • Non-fiction
    • Space mission images (e.g. Mars)
    • Flags
    • Lost places/human architecture post civilization
    • Obsolescent household items
    • Patent drawings
    • Aerials
      • Top-down drone shots
      • Arctic/Antarctic ice
      • Satellite images (e.g. from free and high quality EU-based satellites)
        • As image data is too coarse to show single human settlements,
          maybe show random natural features,
          e.g. mountain/river/glacier/volcano/river delta of the day
    • Libraries
  • Pre-curated
    • Wikipedia picture of the day
    • Reddit ITAP
  • Maps
    • Of any place, dynamically rendered
      • Randomly selected
      • By some metric (e.g. most remote, highest, most X per Y)
      • In which Tsia and I lived/to which we’ve travelled before
    • Public transit maps from all over the world
  • Text based
    • Shit user story (Twitter bot)
    • Long german words
    • WikiData miscorrelations
    • Duden/Oxford dictionary/word of the day
    • Wikipedia BundesEdit
    • Cultural universals
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