July 27, 2006
Computer Artist Creates Images Based on Spam
You need to reference two news items from yesterday to get the full picture of this artistic innovation. First there is this CNET gallery entitled Turning Spam into Art. It's where this graphic to the right was sourced. But there isn't much in the way of an explanation about how this art is being generated by ASCII values found in the text of spam messages. For a more artful explanation, turn to this link for an in-depth story by Stefanie Olsen. Entitled 'One man's spam is another's art,' she writes: For the last several years, the Romanian-born computer artist has applied techniques in computational modeling and information visualization to invent a new form of artistic expression... creating what he calls Spam Plants. He wrote algorithms that analyzed various text and data points of junk e-mail to produce "organic" images of plantlike structures that spontaneously grew based on incoming spam.
Posted by David Karp
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