This Face Is the Average of Inanimate Objects That Look Like Faces

PublishedNovember 12, 2015

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No real faces were used in the making of this face. Instead, it’s what happens when you average out the appearance of a bunch of inanimate objects that people think look like faces.

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Using an algorithm usually used to average out the faces of real people, Robby Kraft instead used it to average out around 2,500 images taken from the glorious Instagram hashtag #FacesInThings. Essentially, it’s just a lot of random every-day objects that bear a passing resemblance to human faces—some more so than others.

The result is, perhaps unsurprisingly, creepily face-like.

[Robby Kraft via Zach Lieberman via Flowing Data]