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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.

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Installation Chrome Web Store

Install the current version from the Chrome Web Store.

Project Structure

The project is split in three parts:

  1. 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.
  2. Server:
    • Given an offset, the server returns the next batch of images.
    • An image contains the image url and its metadata.
  3. 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.