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Pareidolia is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one sees an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none. Wikipedia

I am fascinated by pareidolia pictures and have been collecting them for a long time.
A short research on grid-systems and these pictures inspired me to write a processing scetch that creates collages on these aspects.

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I have generated alpha masks to combine the images into a collage. I think some of the shapes look very pretty.

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I finally achieved these results using various layering techniques. Here is a selection of the generated collages:

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In the end, I also used these collages to write an audio-reactive application: