GoKawiilSIGBOVIK 2019 paper finds 93% of paint splatters parse as valid Perl
An April Fools research paper presented at SIGBOVIK 2019 used OCR software to scan 100 paint-splatter images and test whether the resulting text strings would run as Perl code. The study found 93% of the splatters parsed as valid Perl programs, and the author published seven examples that failed, along with a gallery and image/code dataset.