On Martin Luther King Day, I decided to take Sebastian Schmieg’s Search By Image, Recursively project, and start with a seed image of MLK from Wikipedia.

After about a thousand images we arrive at the Hubble Deep Field. Interesting to compare to Sebastian’s project, where he very quickly arrives at the Deep Field when starting with a transparent image.

I took the code that Sebastian Schmieg made available on his Search by Image page and wrapped it in a loop. The modified code can be found here.

Update:

Here is the full 9 minute video. After crawling about 8500 images, the algorithm stopped after it couldn’t find any new related images. We skip the broken images, which leaves us with about 7000 frames:

And here it is with a soundtrack, as suggested by Aaron.
-raj

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