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This is a generative art tool I've made for plotter drawings.

The UI is not the most intuitive and variables has been named badly - sorry for that.

You may want to switch "randomize" off, so all variables are in use. Try out frepeatx and frepeaty, while randomization is on.

Consider submitting an article describing your algorithm to Seeds, submissions have been extended until next Friday 5th September. Seeds is a zine about generative software http://www.procjam.com/seeds/submit/

I've tried to make something like this as well, but I've probably aimed too high art-wise :) I really like the style of your generator.

Is it intended to be a Little My generator, or is it just me?

The domain is å.cc, nice

Not the same thing, but this reminded me of forensic face drawing software like Identi-Kit. It's been many years since I experimented with such software, but I found it almost impossible to make a believable match to a known face. Working with a photo of Jennifer Aniston or Tom Cruise right beside me, I could not make a convincing match to either actor despite hours of effort with a guided UI. The tiniest shift in angles and proportions in a human face makes the difference between recognizable and unrecognizable.

fun! made one: https://i.imgur.com/KwBNzWQ.png

This sure is awesome! https://i.imgur.com/255UjuN.png

I wish all the controls work with randomize on – so I can have random image with some parameters fixed. e.g., if I change some parameter, it stays fixed.

Do you have source code for the project?

Once again, it's awesome!

This is what powers thispersondoesnotexist.

This site lets you generate faces via neural net and tweak many parameters interactively: http://www.artbreeder.com/

this is actually a really cool, really fast-feedback way to see what tiny changes to the shape or positioning of a mouth or nose gives a dramatically different visual cue. People who've been drawing for years probably know all the little tweaks to make characters look differently, but as someone who isn't, I learnt a something new. Nice!

It's an interesting concept. Seems to have some issues in firefox with changing numbers. It looks like many of the numbers go to a random number after changing rather than the one you set it to.

A lot of the faces it makes remind me of Toffle from the Moomins

https://www.moomin.com/en/characters/toffle/

Thank you all for the comments - I made few improvements: * Randomize is not on by default * Added more options for adjusting jaw/chin shape * Better ranges for some variables

Kinda like if Nintendo Miis were made out of vectors. Fun stuff.

This site hacks the back button. If the author is here, please fix it.

I wonder if it could be a cool replacement for police facial composites.

Very frustrating on mobile!

Wtf is this.

The only issue I see: during changing "scale" face should NOT be regenerated!

Still better than Oblivion.

Plug this into the deep face stuff and this will be really cool.

Thank god, atleast some "face" related project that does not use 100s of gpu.