{"id":984,"date":"2012-01-18T01:13:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T01:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/18\/what-happens-if-you-ask-google-images-whats-most-similar-starting-with-a-blank-image-repeating-the-process-2951-times\/"},"modified":"2012-01-18T01:13:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T01:13:00","slug":"what-happens-if-you-ask-google-images-whats-most-similar-starting-with-a-blank-image-repeating-the-process-2951-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/18\/what-happens-if-you-ask-google-images-whats-most-similar-starting-with-a-blank-image-repeating-the-process-2951-times\/","title":{"rendered":"What happens if you ask Google Images what’s most similar, starting with a blank image, repeating the process 2951 times?"},"content":{"rendered":"

[This is absolutely amazing. Experimental VJs take note. -egg]<\/p>\n

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\nWhat happens if you ask Google Images what’s most similar, starting with a blank image, repeating the process 2951 times?<\/a>: <\/p>\n

Sebastian Schmieg of the Netherlands created this video by feeding a transparent image to Google Image Search and asking it to find similar images, and then taking the top result and feeding it back into the similarity algorithm, 2951 times. It’s a wonderful look at an evolutionary process.<\/p>\n

Search by Image, Recursively, Transparent PNG, #1<\/a><\/p>\n

(via Kottke<\/a><\/i>)<\/p>\n

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[This is absolutely amazing. Experimental VJs take note. -egg] What happens if you ask Google Images what’s most similar, starting with a blank image, repeating the process 2951 times?: Sebastian Schmieg of the Netherlands created this video by feeding a transparent image to Google Image Search and asking it to find similar images, and then […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-fS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}