Maybe now Michael, you can explain it to me ....
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Michael Szpakowski <[email protected]>wrote: > > Rob > This is sleek and smart work! I like it very much ( although I did have to > do quite a lot of googling to fully understand what you were doing...) > best wishes > > michael > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Rob Myers <[email protected]> > *To:* NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity < > [email protected]> > *Sent:* Saturday, January 18, 2014 9:36 PM > *Subject:* [NetBehaviour] Facecoin > > http://robmyers.org/facecoin/ > > Click here to run a visualization in your web browser: > > http://robmyers.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/facecoin.html > > Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin use a "proof of work" system to prevent > abuse. > > Artworks are proofs of aesthetic work. > > Facecoin uses machine pareidolia as its proof of work. This is > implemented by applying CCV’s JavaScript face detection algorithm to > SHA-256 digests represented as greyscale pixel maps. An > industrial-strength version would use OpenCV. Due to the limitations of > face detection as implemented by these libraries, the digest pixel map > is upscaled and blurred to produce images of the size and kind that they > can find faces in. > > The difficulty can be varied by altering the size and blur of the > pixmap. Or by only allowing particular detected face bounds rectangles > to be used a set number of times. > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- http://www.bram.org http://aabrahams.wordpress.com http://metalogues.tumblr.com/ http://readingclub.fr
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