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Evolution of Mona Lisa Via Genetic Programming
mhelander writes "In his weblog Roger Alsing describes how he used genetic programming to arrive at a remarkably good approximation of Mona Lisa using only 50 semi-transparent polygons. His blog entry includes a set of pictures that let you see how 'Poly Lisa' evolved over roughly a million generations. Both beautiful to look at and a striking way to get a feel for the power of evolutionary algorithms."
Genetic Algorithms are like the AI equivalent of text editors... everybody has spent a weekend writing one at some point.
How we know is more important than what we know.
Dorito Lisa?
"Was it a millionaire who said 'Imagine No Posessions?'" -- Elvis Costello
Evolution with a comparison function is called intelligent design. Here for example is the code snipped that created man (from the good book):
... ...
while(strcmp(image(man),image(god)))
{
free(man);
man=(man_t*)malloc(sizeof(man_t));
}
bless(man);
I would've liked to see it done with triangles... complex polygons just feels a bit like cheating. Not that it isn't super cool
Here it is done with 914400 tiny coloured pixe^H^H^H^Hrectangles:
http://avline.abacusline.co.uk/pictures/jpeg/pics/mona.jpg
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well in that case you need to check this out:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3162/3063863618_bedb6183d8_o.jpg
But I'm not a coward ;)
...as opposed to these beer drinking, promiscuous polygons.
Finally we have definitive proof that the Mona Lisa evolved from simple polygons instead of being "intelligently designed" by that fictional Leonardo guy.
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Yes, the whole thing would have been FAR more accessible as a 40000 character perl regex.
Dumbass, go troll your anti-ms propaganda elsewhere :-(
Shit, I always just say "want to go up to my room to see my etchings?" Good to hear what lines my competition is using!
And it gives a great alternative to Java.
I have a great alternative to being burned alive. It's being beaten to death with a baseball bat.
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Yes, the whole thing would have been FAR more accessible as a 40000 character perl regex.
Dumbass, go troll your anti-ms propaganda elsewhere :-(
Yeah, but it'd be like 5 lines in Python... ;)
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OK, I need to know something here. Software has evolved into a messy tangle of thousands of languages with cryptic syntax and incomprehensibly complex features. You all seem to instantly master them and can argue over the tiniest semantic issues. Yet most of you software types are completely baffled and stymied by the elementary ITS/IT IS problem. Why can't you learn that IT'S is not a possessive pronoun? It doesn't need an apostrophe because it's ALREADY possessive!!!
ftfa: So what do you think?
She still wouldn't date someone on /.
Having to work for a living is the root of all evil.
It'll be a single function call in the next Mathematica release :)
Hey--this is slashdot. You can't talk about proprietary software in here unless you are bashing it! Hand in your geek card.
There's no place like
Calm down, Emacs is getting a macro for it too!