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Artist Jason Salavon made these digital works of art that appear to depict blurred out women. The women depicted are actually an amalgamation of all of the Playboy centerfolds from each decade. He creates these images by inputting all of the data from the centerfolds into an algorithm that averages all of the images. You could look at the data from the centerfolds as random information. His algorithm organizes this “random” data to create the image. It is particularly interesting to see these works next to each other because, despite the blurriness of the image, you can see a pattern of how the centerfold girls have become whiter and thinner over the years. This creative method of data visualization makes a statement about how people’s concept of attractiveness and beauty have changed over the last couple decades.