Most image filters are just plain boring.  They mess up an image in one way or another, degrading its intelligibility in the hope that doing so will somehow make it more interesting.  Yeah, right. 

Painteresque makes images more interesting and more compelling because it is actually intended to be part of a system of artificial intelligence that will enable a computer to make sense out of visual information.  Instead of degrading the information in the image, Painteresque extracts and intensifies its most interesting and intelligible features.  If you find something compelling or interesting in the resulting filtered images, maybe we are on the right track!  Even if we are, though, it may take a while to finish building Hal's smarter brother.  Meanwhile, you can enjoy the images on our calendar, in our album, and, shortly we hope, the ones you make yourself with the software or online processing service we may offer.