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One Man's Spam Is Another Man's Art

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bah-i-used-spam-as-art-in-college dept.

mytrip writes "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. "

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  1. um by r3st2 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is pointless.

  2. I consider it a success.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    When I can pull myself away from work long enough to watch a movie, do some laundry, or perhaps even bathe. The time this guys has on his hands is unfathomable.

  3. Am I missing something? by vermox · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is this official spam-day in ./ or what?

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