Pareidoloop

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Pareidoloop

What happens if you write software that generates random polygons and the software then feeds the results through facial recognition software, looping thousands of times until the generated image more and more resembles a face? Pareidoloop. Above, my results from running it for a few hours. Spooky.

More on github.

Filed under: art — by adafruit, posted August 7, 2012 at 4:00 am


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