Augustofaces Turns Tree Knots and Rust Stains into Fine Art
Augustofaces: Pareidolia Fine Art
A Hacker News thread celebrates Augustofaces, a project that collects pareidolia: faces hiding in tree knots, clouds, cracked cement, and peeling rust. Commenters note the categories — organic, random, and man-made — and single out shadow-driven faces as the hardest to spot. One reader runs a similar group chat called ThingFaces.
I especially love ones involving a shadow hitting something at just the right angle - those feel extra hard to find :)
- niemandhier
A relevant reminder in an age where we perceive minds within machines capable of generating text.
- alook
This is awesome. Some friends and I have a group chat called ThingFaces where we do the same thing.
We noticed that there's organic ones (in tree knots/clouds) or random ones (cracks in cement, rust peeling) or man-made ones (anything designed).
I especially love ones involving a shadow hitting something at just the right angle - those feel extra hard to find :)
Thanks for sharing this!
- jamesjolliffe
Does anyone else find these photos really relaxing to look at?