What is a Vase? Google Quick, Draw!

Stacked "vase" doodles from the dataset.

50 million doodles have been released as a dataset, including 126,475 drawings of a "vase". In the image above I've stacked hundreds of "vase" doodles, revealing a common form.

But what emerges is not the universal, Platonic ideal of a "vase". Google's analysis of doodle composites has shown that even for basic things like "chair" there are significant differences across cultures. (Google AI & Kyle McDonald)

You can browse the vase doodle dataset here: https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/data/vase

Differences in doodles for “chair” across cultures.

Samples of "vases" from the Google Quick, Draw! dataset.

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