Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon that leads us to come across familiar objects inward random patterns. For example, when nosotros expect at aerial imagery of the basis nosotros mightiness intend nosotros recognise faces inward the topography.
onformative has created a figurer program, called GoogleFaces, that scans Google Maps satellite imagery looking for patterns that humans mightiness believe are human faces. GoogleFaces scans through 1 satellite icon afterwards some other on Google Maps, sequentially along the latitude as well as longitude of the globe. After scanning roughly the public it as well as then switches to the side past times side zoom marking as well as starts all over again.
As it scans each satellite imagery the GoogleFaces human face upwardly detection algorithm records the latitude as well as longitude of whatever 'faces' it finds. The onformative website has a few examples of the faces already institute on Google Maps, including the 1 above, institute inward the satellite imagery of Russia.
