Recursive Google Image Search Is Nuts

As you may know, you can search for photos by dropping a picture on Google Images. It shows you images that are equal or similar to yours. This is what happens when you feed one search with the result of the previous search. 2951 times.

Editor’s note: Depending on how quick your eyes are, you may notice a some NSFW content at about the 1:06 mark. Consider this a warning!

Dutch smartperson Sebastian Schmieg thought about doing exactly that, starting with a transparent 400 x 225 PNG. He put all the 2951 resulting images on this video. You must watch it: it goes from space to ffffffffffffuuuuuuuu in four minutes. [Vimeo via Matt Biddulph via Kottke]

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    BIG.DOS

    Sunday, January 15, 2012 at 9:39 AM

    Smart,
    but not smart enough to put some music to his vid….

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    Regal

    Sunday, January 15, 2012 at 10:01 AM

    I spotted boobs at 1:06 so you should probably put a NSFW label incase someone walks past at that present moment…

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    Noddy

    Sunday, January 15, 2012 at 10:34 AM

    Wait…!! Too fast, I want to stop at the titty girl. How’d she get in there anyway?

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      TheGoodNamesWereUsed

      Monday, January 16, 2012 at 4:15 PM

      1:06 is a scene from Spartacus (series 1: Blood and Sand – i think), there is a ludicrous amount of boobage in that series!

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    Stark

    Sunday, January 15, 2012 at 10:59 AM

    Looks like a perfect illustration of feeback loops and chaos theory.

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    Outlaw

    Sunday, January 15, 2012 at 11:08 AM

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    BGM

    Sunday, January 15, 2012 at 12:26 PM

    love the wave at 3:20

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    alphamone

    Sunday, January 15, 2012 at 12:56 PM

    it seems to realy like those hubble deep field images.

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    Ron Van Wegen

    Monday, January 16, 2012 at 11:19 AM

    To understand recursion you must understand recursion.

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    BBGun

    Monday, January 16, 2012 at 11:59 AM

    I know Kung-Fu

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    Ozoneocean

    Monday, January 16, 2012 at 3:10 PM

    Good to know this function of Google image search actually has one decent use.

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