Creative Coding Projects #1 — Faces of Humanity
Once in a while, I stumble upon some interesting, inspiring works that I think deserve more attention. One such project is ‘Faces of Humanity’, a project by Tortue.
Last year, Google launched Quick, Draw!, an experiment where people could draw something and the AI would try to guess what they drew. It was a fun app that also helped developers train a neural network. The data was open-sourced and can be found over here, if you want to use it for your own projects.
‘Faces of Humanity’ is a project that tries to create collaborative drawings based on the Quick, Draw! data. Every drawing is a collaboration between different people, from different places, at a different time, each and one of them drawing a part of a face. So an ear can be drawn by someone from, let’s say, Germany, while an eye can be drawn by someone in the United States.
The drawings are not filtered, so the results are sometimes funny or weird, because the people who drew them at first decided to take a more creative route and draw something different. Two such results are here and here.
Every hour, a new face is created and posted on the Faces of Humanity project page. Here you can also find out from where in the world the parts come from. If you’re looking for a curated experience, Tortue has started a selection on Pinterest.
Some of the faces were automatically colored with PaintsChainer, adding them more depth and making them look even funnier, creepy or abstract.
Thanks to Tortue for telling me more about this project. If you want to learn more about Tortue’s creative coding experiments, have a look over here.
