UPDATE: I.D. Magazine Visitors — more images can be found here.
This sketch was created by combining images from every United States patent containing the phrase “toy pistol”. The earliest image dates back to the mid 1800’s.
Several other compositions are currently in the works. More later …
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That’s fantastic.
You could probably do some really fascinating image recognition stuff with this - levels of darkness, overlap, percent similarity, etc…..