This art experiment creates an image constructed of pixels stolen from a large number of websites. The project started with just 10 URLs. The application that generated the design has a web crawler that searched the pages under those ten websites for images and hyperlinks. From Each image, 100 pixels are saved in a square of 10×10 with each hyperlink added to the list of searchable URLs. The process continues till the total number of images downloaded was 1.000.000, which resulted in a total of 100.000.000 ’stolen pixels’
After running for approximately nine hours the result is not a very pretty design. However, it has been displayed as a browseable format in Google Maps, which makes for some very interesting viewing. You can zoom in an out of the mosaic. When you zoom in a bit you can view the individual pixels and see the underlying design. Via:[PSFK]
