Sunday, August 5, 2012

Making Faces With Pareidolia


A random polygon generator constantly makes shapes until a facial-recognition algorithm detects a "face."

It's weird and telling. It's also informative for those in the paranormal field, reminding us how much "random" can look like something recognizable, especially when we want it to.

More HERE

3 comments:

Andymatic said...

Link does not work!

Cullan Hudson said...

Hopefully it works now. Dunno why it wasn't working. This is the URL http://prostheticknowledge.tumblr.com/post/28662849326/pareidoloop-correction-blech-said-the-author

fred ressler said...

Would be interesting to use face recognition with natural shadows on a white board. Found these with human (my) face recognition.

http://www.lisastonearts.com/
(click images to enlarge).