Faceclouds is an art project by Chris Ratcliffe and Martin Klang that using face recognition technology to search for clouds that look like faces.

When (or if) the faceclouds machine spots a cloud that resembles a face, it will tweet the picture to the faceclouds twitter account.

follow the faceclouds art machine on twitter now @faceclouds to receive a tweet as soon as it spots something.

How it works:

Face recognition Software is everywhere. It might be in your camera's autofocus system, or helping you find photos of your friends on your favourite social networking site.

We decided to use the technology to create a little machine that scans the heavens all day, every day trying to find something meaningful in the random patterns of clouds.

The system uses the Processing programming language, the openCV computer vision library, along with a cheap laptop and webcam.

Please send any enquiries about the project to:

faceclouds (at) 33dd.com
The faceclouds machine