if you’d put that lens flare in last this would have had amazing comic timing.

What order did you use…? It looks like you go top down, but I could swear I counted some multiple instances… add noise, for instance… but I must be wrong, because I don’t think you’d let a detail like that slip by.

That was oddly compelling.

Wow! Love it.

It’s a straight ahead top-down trawl.

Mr. Chen has a nice smile. And a persistent one.

Mr. Chen IS the Cheshire Cat…

About 3/4 of the way down there are a few that remind me of one of the (very) old Desktop Textures for the Mac, I think it was the one called ‘Lumps in my Oatmeal’.

It’s like evolution, but backwards and with lens flare.

Wow. I wonder how stressing this was on your processor.
How long did it take? I know that if I tried to do something like this, I’d literally take all day.

Also, Mr. Chen is a shining beacon of awesome, as usual.

I want THIS on a t-shirt.

Since this went through a good number of pure grey/black screens, does that mean that any picture would give the same results? Are there factors that change the later filters given a black screen? I wonder if there is still some stuff left from the original image, or just calculations that could go a variety of ways…

i am so glad i don’t use dial up

such a happy man

You’re slightly autistic, aren’t you?

that was absurd and intense. Must have taken forever to do.

autism makes life interesting.

that was brilliant. my face hurts from laughing while scrolling for the last ten minutes. :F

Let’s see Interpol unscramble this one.

you know that after you applied the clouds filter, you created a new random image using your foreground and background colors despite whatever was there before…

Lens Flare!

Try running it backwards to see if you return to the original pic.

A man and his cat are THIS close to being the wu-tang clan symbol.
Amazing.

I just wonder whether this is any useful as unique identifier for photos? ;)

How not to use Photoshop 101

Uh…yeah. Wonder what it would be like if you started with an image that has little difference in foreground/background….?

What, no Actions file for me to apply these to all my pictures?

Btw, the clouds filter will always cover up your pic. So might as well just start with that one. :)

haha, the mouth looked like the state of Texas at some point

Did you try in other pictures? I am curious… It works always this way? I love it!

It’s like saying…” what if I mix all the colors of paint in the same bucket?”

You get noise, mud. After five filters, you have pretty much made mud.

If you had changed the colors from the beginning, something else than black and white, the result wouldn’t be so gray

I think it needs more cowbell.

This gave me internet rage.

I particulary like Mr. Chen’s smile in frame 50 – or 51 – not quite sure…

Haha.

The lens flare made me smile.

k, so where is the action to run this?

Weirdly compelling. I didn’t think we were going to see much past the grey stages. Fair play for continuing to go on through the filters.

Someone must animate this now.

And after death, nothing. This feels like “The Last Question” or the end of 2001 or The Time Machine — anything that gives us that temporal vertigo.

now do it again with the same picture, except start from the bottom :P

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