Faces from Polygons

A program named Pariedoloop (after paeidolia, the tendency to see human faces in things) has been getting a lot of attention on the web for its ability to generate images of faces from random polygons that are looped fed through facial recognition software. I think it's interesting, but the progenitor of this -- a program named Evo Lisa written by Roger Alsing -- deserves recognition and has its own set of really stunning results. Evo Lisa generates random triangles then essentially checks them for fit against a pre-existing image, and then continuously rearranges (over a period of life, with a set number of triangles) achieving close and closer fits. The results are incredible. The program design was intended to model evolution metaphorically.