Dynamic filtering of best pictures
Problem
The more the volume of picture is growing, the more the user will face very crowded interface, such as:
Suggestion
I suggest to highlight to the user the best pictures, by default.
This would be dynamically adjusted depending on the context.
Definition of best pictures
"Best" is hard to define. Also it's definitely a subjective choice: a very bad quality picture can show something very interesting to the user, there is no way to be sure.
Therefore I believe that we should still display and it should remain possible to click an un-prioritorized sequence in all cases.
My suggestion of "best picture", as a first step, would be a new subjective indicator : the "recommanded pictures", with a score being a combinaison of
- the Quality Score
- a new "freshness score", that decreases slowly in the first years then drastically drops, something like that:
- the user's pictures should be prioritized over other user's
Interface
I suggest we display the un-prioritized sequences, only in dense areas (more than 100 pictures in the bbox ?), on a inferior layer (always displayed below the prioritized ones), with a new light style :
Repartition
The amount of prioritized VS un-prioritized pictures may also be dynamically adjusted: the more pictures are displayed, the less sequences are prioritized.
My proposal being, only based on my intuition:
N.B: it could be that this is a useless option and that a static amount would do perfectly the job.
To be tested.
Interaction
The user should not be able to select a picture of an un-prioritized sequence. Instead, he/she could select and highlight this sequence, allowing him/her to select a specific picture with another click.
The hitbox of these sequences should NOT be modified, but the prioritized ones should be increased and having priority.
Quality score for sequences
This would only be possible if we create a quality score not only for the pictures but for sequences too.
It could be that it's just average of all pictures score in this very sequence, as a start.
Option to disable
This new view should be a new render, activated by default.
The new view should be called "Smart display" and the current "By default" one should be renamed "All pictures"
