Artist Uses Computers, Viruses to Create Art

[cherg101]

hahahhaha people just cant come up with ways to make money!!!

[peepeevagi]

SO those are what computer viruses look like...

"I'm sorry sir, your Mac has aids."

[2canines]

OMG don't bring the viruses to the physical world. soon people will get infected and start to Spam penis enlargement massages

[WilliamUzumaki99]

@2canines Maybe they turn into zombies than.

[z3roo0]

AHHAHAHA ahh, that was funny xD

[happygamestvfun1]

@2canines Wonder how they will spam? will the pull out their obvioois fake strapon, thats been photoshoped?

[bbmmxx]

hahaha romanian hacker :)

[sid350350]

ok, viruses just have no GUI, work with files and network. There are lot of useful programmes with no GUI, file work and network.

hint: there is no actual difference.

[sid350350]

how the viruses code differents from the usual code?

[Smuczerproductions]

the virus code is meant to destroy. the usual code is not.

[valek27]

but this creates?

[dianepeter856]

watch this vid /watch?v=cmpaAoY3SQc

uyvcjlzBcouyZX VuzxuycbuygzXCJBZXC I LOVE PUSSY kuvdkhvaslfsdbfljZBclygasdkfbs udybfi

[RLore18]

This is also nothing new. People have been coding procedural generation algorithms to produce products for a long time now. Most people who do this don't get even the 15 minutes of fame that this guy gets. The reason why he got his 15 minutes is because he's working for messagelabs. This undoubtedly gave messagelabs some nice publicity, and I imagine he was well paid for doing it.

[seskie]

true.

[P5ark]

you are right. this images look like typical generative images. if he had the idea or someone of the company. using the code of a virus to create forms that look like viruses in real is nice

[RLore18]

Actually if he's only picking out the patterns he can find in viruses, then that means his art doesn't truly represent the virus's code. In order to form a true picture of the code, every single bit has to be considered without being altered.

Honestly, it's not very cool at all. He wrote a procedural generation algorithm which can produce 3D images from any data at all - a bitmap, a text file, a dynamic link library, etc. He just chose to use viruses for PR and "style."

[Mansionibus]

GO ROMANIA!! WONDERFUL

[benzbubblecat]

coolest thing ever

[TheTickRox1]

I've seen better images made from C4D...

I still don't understand how code molds into an image...

[brokenjohnny]

LSD.

[benboyang]

you make a very complex formula to paint a picture (notice all the pics look similar)

The formula contains some variables ( x y z etc if you like) The program searches the code for values for these variables ( it could just be every 3rd number for example), inserts them into the formula and renders it.

Instead of code, you could just bang randomly on the keyboard - anything at all can be used to provide some values for colours, shapes etc., all within a preset style.

[d3V3np4hl]

thats awesome. i cant wait for this software to be releases to the public. if it creates art from viruses, imagine what it might create from legit software too.. it will be cool to see a mugshot of the viruses that cause so many people troubles.

i'm impressed.

[rtsjoe]

i want one

[neo3nfsmw]

cool

[SxyRedHead]

so hes a programmer, not an artist. someone else created those viruses.

[P5ark]

his programs is the art. what do you think someone must do so you can call him an artist?

[themilitantatheist]

"Uncompiled versions of the code

were used so there was no danger of infection. Though one time he couldn't find one of his files so he used his antivirus to find it"

Yeah right.

[CypherVirus]

yea, I noticed that too... uhhh so his anti-virus can read code and determine intent?

[bethsays]

so wait, i still don't get how those algorithms created those pieces of art.

what program did he use to create them? how were they produced?

[meox45]

Thats cool

[meox45]

Thats cool

[sobelius]

We only wish that were the case. You are misinformed. It's certainly true there is money to be made by providing protection, but the reason malware even exists today is because there's even more money to be made by scamming people via spam email, by stealing your personal identity and financial data, and by stealing your computer's horsepower and Internet connection to spread even more malware.

[ccchaaaddd]

wow

[KIRKIN2112]

Freaky!

[jajinsky]

beautiful...

[thepav1234]

Thats so weired, But it's so cool, WOOO first somment

[williamkendrick]

and even with a spell checker built right in you managed to misspell comment. nice job