A small experiment in transformation

About

What Bird Are You? turns a photo into a playful bird result without sending the photo anywhere. One photo gets one bird: the choice is deterministic, so the same image keeps its bird.

How the morph works

After you choose and reframe a photo, the browser uses self-hosted MediaPipe models to find face and body landmarks. A small Canvas 2D triangle mesh then warps the photo toward a hand-anchored bird silhouette, with a graceful fallback when a browser cannot complete detection. The final card is created in your browser, ready to download, share as an image file, copy, or drag—without a result URL because no result is stored.

Credits

Bird silhouettes are original or carefully derived from CC0 and public-domain reference material. Each bird’s source and license record lives with the project data. Landmark and segmentation technology comes from MediaPipe, licensed under Apache 2.0. Species learn-more links go to eBird.

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