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This software is a facial recognition program that produces art and faces through randomly generated noise. The program takes randomly generated noise and tries to create a face using polygons and the generated noise it receives. The software was developed by a man named Phil McCarthy. He wanted to use the program to abuse and play with pareidolia which is the tendency of humans to find faces in everything they see. Because of this, he chose to name the program “Pareidoloop”. What I admire about this project is the fact that a machine that doesn’t initially know what a face looks like tries to draw a face using random data. It’s almost like making something out of nothing. The project both plays with the computer and our tendencies as humans.
