Author: Kalev Leetaru
Gemini For Museums: Museum-Scale Fully Autonomous Page-Level Rich Cataloging, Contextualization & Description Of A 500-Year-Old Picture Bible
As we begin to digitize an incredibly unique collection of nearly complete copies of the seminal "picture Bibles" of the…
Interface In The Era Of AI: Turning The Seminal Picture Bibles Into Flipbooks: First Experiments
In our increasingly AI-intermediated world, the conceptions of user interface, algorithm-free browsing and in-order consumption of books and other printed…
Turning The 2026 DNI Annual Threat Assessment (ATA) Into An Infographic Using Gemini + Nano Banana Pro + 2
What does it look like to turn the DNI's 2026 Annual Threat Assessment (ATA) into an infographic using Gemini 3.1…
A Montage Of Half A Month Of Global Media Trends Using Gemini 3.1 + ImageMagick
Yesterday we showed how to use Gemini 3.1 to create the ImageMagick code to turn a directory of media trend…
Gemini For Museums: Using Gemini To Identify & Translate The Table Of Contents Pages Of The 1585 Jode Picture Bible
Earlier today we demonstrated how Gemini 3.1 could perfectly transcribe and translate into English the Latin text in the introductory…
Gemini For Museums: Using Gemini To Transcribe & Translate Two 500-Year-Old Latin Poems From The 1585 Jode Picture Bible
Gerard de Jode's 1585 Thesaurus Sacrarum was arguably one of the first true "picture Bibles" and the small number of…
Using Gemini 3.1 To Turn A Directory Of Infographics Into A Global Montage Of A Day Of Media Trends Around The World
What would it look like to visualize a day of media trends around the world, combining the thematic trend analysis…
Turning a PDF Into An Identically Themed Email Newsletter Using Gemini 3.1 Pro
Turning a daily analytic PDF report into an equivalent email newsletter that shares the same visual look-and-feel and thematic styling…
Today's Media Trends: Belarus & "The Weaponization of History" & "Western Cultural 'Degeneracy' as a Policy Driver"
As we continue our public interest experiments in applying deep thematic trend analysis to television news coverage from around the…
Gemini For Museums: Piecing Together Biblical Image Reworking At Scale From The 1585 Jode To A 1672 Visscher Royal
Visscher's Royal Bible (seen here bound in a 1672 Swart KJV) was a stunning series of around 130 two-page Biblical…
Gemini For Museums: Using Gemini To Identify & Describe Woodcuts In The Profusely Illustrated 1657 Van Sichem Bible
One of the most profusely illustrated Bibles ever created, the 1657 Biblia Sacra published in Amsterdam by Pieter Jacobsz Paets…
The Declaration Of Independence, NARA & The Limits Of "Authoritative" AI Search Grounding From Government Sources
In the course of some recent research using different AI models to compile a list of America 250th celebrations across…
Legislative Experiments With Gemini: Using Gemini 3.1 To Extract All The Claims From the SOTU & Autonomously Vet Them
After each year's State of the Union (SOTU) address, journalists and researchers pour over the president's statements and attempt to…
Combining Gemini 3 + Nano Banana Pro To Describe And Style/Artist/Medium Transfer A Visscher Royal Bible Engraving
How might Gemini 3.1 and Nano Banana Pro help us better understand and experiment with this two-page engraving from a…
Gemini As Indiana Jones: Digitizing Historical Engravings For AI Analysis Using A Samsung Phone Vs DSLR
Continuing our series on leveraging Gemini 3's advanced visual reasoning to decipher 500-year-old roundels on a Nuremberg Chronicle leaf to…
An Experiment In Deeply Analyzing The Trends & Themes Of One Week Of Global Television News
Last week we explored how journalists and scholars could see the news each day not as a roaring river of…
An Experiment In Deeply Analyzing The Trends & Themes Of Two Days Of Global Television News
What if journalists and scholars could see the news each day not as a roaring river of realtime unrelated narratives,…
Iranian TV News Projects Normalcy & Introduces New AI-Powered Legal Services Robot
As the US amasses forces and threatens to attack Iran, state television news channel IRINN largely projects an air of…
Deeply Analyzing Trends & Themes: Examining A Day Of Iranian & Syrian TV News Through The Lenses Of Legislative Vs General Developments
Earlier this month we demonstrated how Gemini 3 can help us sift out the overarching trends and patterns of a…
Legislative Experiments With Gemini: Deep Trend Analysis Of A Week Of CSPAN Coverage
Over the past two weeks we have explored how Congressional staffers could leverage Gemini 3 Flash in helping to prepare…
Using Nano Banana Pro Programmatically Via The GCP Vertex API To Create Images
Creating images programmatically with Nano Banana Pro is trivial using the GCP Vertex API, but requires a few extra steps…
Legislative Experiments With Gemini: Using Gemini 3 Flash + Nano Banana Pro To Deeply Analyze The Themes & Trends Of A Day Of Congressional Business
Last week we explored how Congressional staffers could leverage Gemini 3 in helping to prepare briefings for their members, leveraging…
Reaching Nearly 3M Global TV News Broadcasts Totaling 6B Seconds & 109 Billion Tokens Translated By Gemini For $74.6K
Last month we announced the incredible milestone that we had completed machine translation into English of the entire quarter-century Internet…
Legislative Experiments With Gemini: Using Gemini 3 Flash To Prepare A Daily Overview Briefing For A Member Of Congress From CSPAN
Continuing our series of experiments exploring how Congress could leverage advanced reasoning models like Gemini as part of the legislative…