๐Ÿ“ท Photography ยท photojournalism archives

Silhouette Archive

Reveal the topological shape (clusters, loops, voids) hiding inside photojournalism archives so photographers read structure at a glance.

QTDAยท shape of data
Section ยท Quantum

The hook.

full primer โ†’

Photojournalism archives gets fed into a quantum shape-finder; photographers see clusters, loops, and gaps drawn on top of their work instead of having to spot structure by eye.

Why this primitiveQTDA is the right primitive here because photojournalism archives reduces to a shape of data problem; the kernel returns a result you can drop straight into the UI.

Kernel
a Quantum Topological Data Analysis pipeline returning Betti numbers (b0, b1, b2) from a Vietoris-Rips filtration
Drives the UI as
a 'shape signature' visualization with connected-component, loop, and void counts
Appendix A

The mega-prompt.

This prompt is engineered to ship in a single Lovable build. Real Quantinuum Guppy/Selene circuit runs in the Linux sandbox at build time and the results are baked in as JSON. read the build strategy โ†’

~14.6 KB287 lines1 msg ยท ~5 credits
Open in Lovable โ†—
Appendix B

Market sizing.

TAM
$7.0B
the photo software market (~$2.4B) and >15M pro photographers.
SAM
$1.1B
the 16% of that market actively buying photojournalism archives-adjacent software.
SOM
$78M
a realistic 7% capture of the serviceable slice in years 1โ€“3 via the hackathon launch and creator-led distribution.

Indicative figures for hackathon pitches โ€” refine with your own research before raising.

See also

Adjacent entries.