Mutating Pictures: using artificial selection to create faces

The Mutating Pictures project is striving to generate human likenesses out of random blobs -- 1000 random pictures have been uploaded to the site. We all go through it, ranking each one for the degree to which it resembles a human. The most human-like are used to spawn 1000 new offspring, mutated from their genome, and so on, until the perfect human face emerges. It's like the samurai crabs -- artificial selection to produce shapes pleasing to our eye. Link (Thanks, Phillip!)

[#1 posted by gurple , October 1, 2007 5:04 AM]

Once I saw something that resembled a human face. More often than not I saw Voltron commercials. Fun!

[#2 posted by waterspan , October 1, 2007 12:26 PM]

Look towards the center of this artwork and zoom and pan around. Many see faces of various animals, demons, mickey mouse, etc...

Artwork

[#3 posted by Philipp Lenssen , October 2, 2007 10:22 AM]

Lots of Samurais can be seen today:

http://blogoscoped.com/forum/110036.html#id110160