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Nice site. I saw this project and knew it had to be eigenfaces: https://devart.withgoogle.com/#/project/16569221

Eigenfaces is a very old technique for doing this (it was old when I implemented for the first time in 2000) and as you can see the results are rather blurry. It only takes about five lines of code in a matrix language -- collecting data was the main issue I recall.

If nothing else this serves as a good example of the value of framing your work. Done in a machine learning / stats context eigenfaces is not much more than a nice blog post (e.g. http://jeremykun.com/2011/07/27/eigenfaces/) or class project. But ... present it as an art project and you get frontpage on Google's new site.

Very interesting. What if you took a large set of musical notes on various instruments, with about a two-second duration, with the same pitch, same volume, and same sample rate, and did the same thing? Eigensounds! And that's just with a time-domain representation of the sound -- you'd get different eigensounds if you used a frequency-domain representation.

I have to wonder if something like this is used by those song-recognizing apps that can tell you what a song is just by hearing a snippet through your phone.

Ah, Google DevArt. I partecipated last year and my project got a weekly feature award from the judges (every week they'd pick a promising project for that) but sadly didn't make in the final selection.

For some reason my project was pulled from the website after the competition ended, I tried to contact them about it but with no success. The project is on github, for those curious: https://github.com/MegaLeon/devart-arsmatrix

I wonder when they'll acknowledge the OG art made with code people and link to this: http://www.pouet.net/prodlist.php?order=thumbup

This website is incomprehensible

Is that because art is incomprehensible? But really the UX is not that bad -- there are filters across the top to reduce your view, restricting the results by filtering by Languages, Toolkits, Platforms, APIs, and Project Types. Seems reasonable.

For example, filtering by Toolkits>threejs shows some neat dataviz projects using threejs[1].

[1] https://devart.withgoogle.com/#/?q=threejs

Art is entirely comprehensible.

The problem with projects like this is that they often look more like technology studies than art.

There's a sweet spot between vintage media techniques and this modern(ist) everything-is-colour+code+concept digital style. But hardly anyone is exploring it.

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