{"id":8409,"date":"2013-07-13T23:55:55","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T23:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/?p=8409"},"modified":"2013-08-02T00:55:11","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T00:55:11","slug":"mind-blown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/mind-blown\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind. Blown!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I did not take this photograph, Google+ created<\/em> it:<\/p>\n

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Photo made automatically by Google+, without any input whatsoever<\/em> from me.<\/p><\/div>\n

The photo above was made by AUTOMATICALLY combining these two photos here, after I uploaded them to the site:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\"Photo<\/a>

Photo 2 – Adda looking mighty fine.<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The comment Google+ gave me on the new image was “This photo was created using the best smiles in a set of similar photos<\/em>.” \u00a0Which means that<\/p>\n

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  1. Google detected that the two photos were very similar (not terribly hard to do, in spite of the moving guy in the background).<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Google found the two faces in the photo (this is a “solved problem”)<\/li>\n
  3. Google detected WHICH SMILE WAS BETTER (this freaks me out, HOW GOOGLE, HOOOW?!?!)<\/li>\n
  4. Google seamlessly morphed Adda’s ‘better face’ onto Photo 1 (waaaay<\/em> better than I ever could.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    How seamless was the morph? \u00a0This seamless:<\/p>\n

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    Morphing gif, before and after. (You may have to wait for it to load).<\/p><\/div>\n

    Mind. BLOWN!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I did not take this photograph, Google+ created it: The photo above was made by AUTOMATICALLY combining these two photos here, after I uploaded them to the site: The comment Google+ gave me on the new image was “This photo was created using the best smiles in a set of similar photos.” \u00a0Which means thatRead more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-container col-md-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8409"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8418,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8409\/revisions\/8418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}