Spam plants

[ToSeek]

One man's spam is another's art (http://news.com.com/One+mans+spam+is+anothers+art/2100-1025_3-6098479.html?tag=nefd.lede)

Most people see Viagra ads and Nigerian scams as simply more e-mail to delete. Alex Dragulescu sees art.

For the last several years, the Romanian-born computer artist has applied techniques in computational modeling and information visualization to invent a new form of artistic expression. One of his more notable projects involved creating what he calls Spam Plants. He wrote algorithms that analyzed various text and data points of junk e-mail to produce "organic" images of plantlike structures that spontaneously grew based on incoming spam.

[NEOWatcher]

Looks like a variation on one I saw some time ago that analyzed web page contents and links (or something like that). I think I saw it here, but I wanted to comment before searching.

Although the same idea, this guy's work is soooo much better.:clap: To bad we can't feed it like the earlier one.

[ToSeek]

That does sound familiar. Oh wasn't it some sort of thing where you entered a URL, and it drew a plant as you watched?

[NEOWatcher]

That does sound familiar. Oh wasn't it some sort of thing where you entered a URL, and it drew a plant as you watched?
YUP... I believe the background looked kinda like a greenhouse. I tried searching, but finding things on this board when you don't know unique words is very difficult. (Is there an "and" syntax in the search?)