This has been floating round a few blogs recently, but it is very cool so I'm foisting it on you lot too.
Spam Architecture,
from Alex Dragulescu, is a computer program which takes junk email as
input and converts it into some rather wonderful 3D models. How it does
this, I dunno. There's probably a lot of Alex going into the mix, too.
Anyway, they look just fine.
9 comments:
That's better than a lot of building designs I've seen lately!
Purty cool. That's one way to put spam to good use.
Now, if we could just deposit the spam generators into the wet concrete, we'd be sorted
I like it. There is an element in it that reminds me of origami, too.
I stole this from you, Matt, for my blog. I forgot to thank you. Thank you.
You're welcome Sarah.
It occurred to me today that I've often said that if you could visualize software as some sort of physical contraption, it would be more obvious quite how complex it really is. Can you imagine what sort of baroque creation would pop out if you could put Windows XP through this?
It would doubtless be a communistic concrete apartment complex with monolith walls and shabby little windows showing the dirt stained faces of hungry angry people.
You think? I was imagining something rather more like the Dracula's castle seen through a shattered mirror, some monstrous baroque thing.
That too. : )
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