What happens if you ask Google Images what's most similar, starting with a blank image, repeating the process 2951 times?

[This is absolutely amazing. Experimental VJs take note. -egg]

What happens if you ask Google Images what's most similar, starting with a blank image, repeating the process 2951 times?:

Sebastian Schmieg of the Netherlands created this video by feeding a transparent image to Google Image Search and asking it to find similar images, and then taking the top result and feeding it back into the similarity algorithm, 2951 times. It's a wonderful look at an evolutionary process.

Search by Image, Recursively, Transparent PNG, #1

(via Kottke)