Portrait of Alan Turing algorithmically approximated by ellipses, in six panels

[frauenfelder]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2017/10/17/portrait-of-alan-turing-algori.html

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[JohnEightThirty]

Homogenius!

[anon48584343]

This is a test. Nothing but a test. Please remain calm.

[Ratel]

The first one looks like a Ralph McQuarrie…they go downhill after that.

[Footface]

That is a neat art thing.

[anon47741163]

From just reading the title, I was expecting Ascii art.

[Bernel]

So if you recognize him in the first panel you have passed the Turing test?

[SteveT]

Also: https://rogerjohansson.blog/2008/12/07/genetic-programming-evolution-of-mona-lisa/

[Nathaniel_]

I once attempted to do exactly this with Van Gogh’s Starry Night, as part of a competition. (But it didn’t work nearly as well as this.) https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/70907/21034

[FGD135]

Not bad, not bad at all…