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Spam Plants

Alex Dragulescu’s Spam Plants are computer-generated organisms of which the attributes are determined by varying factors in spam e-mails — subject lines, headers and footers, etc. The colour of a plant is based on the name of the e-mail sender, and the time the message was delivered determines the size of the plant. Finally, the size of the e-mail influences how bushy the plant grows, and certain keywords such as “Nigerian” can grow more branches.

According to this CNET article, now he’s working on a piece of software called Blogbot that can “write” experimental graphic novels based on text harvested from thousands of blogs.

(via Information Aesthetics)

  • http://bgoz.blogspot.com/ Kevin Cromwell

    I love watching natural forces create art, in cyberspace spam is a natural force. I can’t watch the retreating glacier carve the mountains, though I would think I could watch the spam freeze the valleys of server capacity. I guess what I’m saying is the peices are cool, but wish they were animated.

    :)=

  • http://bgoz.blogspot.com/ Kevin Cromwell

    I love watching natural forces create art, in cyberspace spam is a natural force. I can’t watch the retreating glacier carve the mountains, though I would think I could watch the spam freeze the valleys of server capacity. I guess what I’m saying is the peices are cool, but wish they were animated.

    :)=

  • Frank Willemsen

    I stand in awe. Thank you Alex Dragulescu for finding beauty in the very last place to look.

  • Frank Willemsen

    I stand in awe. Thank you Alex Dragulescu for finding beauty in the very last place to look.

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