Twitter Bots @badpng and @pixelsorter

Way Spurr-Chen built a Twitter bot that will take an image you tweet at it, do some pro­cess­ing, and tweet you back a dis­tort­ed result. Here’s one I sent it.

https://twitter.com/pixelsorter/status/518404668989648896

The real fun start­ed when Way Spurr-Chen sent @pixelsorter and anoth­er Twitter bot @badpng the same image.

https://twitter.com/wayspurrchen/status/514246071464521728

The two bots start­ed tweet­ing back and forth, con­tin­u­al­ly pro­cess­ing the results from the each other. After forty-two hand offs, the loop was bro­ken so the two would­n’t go on to infin­i­ty. Here’s what the two bots made together.

@pixelsorter pic.twitter.com/x4Ueb6ZJkP

— badp­ng bot (@badpng) September 23, 2014

I love the idea of robot art. And glitch art can be very cool. It’s very abstract and post­mod­ern. Done right it’s all about appre­ci­at­ing color, tech­nique, and process. People make the coolest stuff on the Internet.

(via The Verge)