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."

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[Anonymous Coward]

Is the source code available for this? It'd be a fun project to learn from and play around with.

Feeding the troll...

[bondsbw]

Had this consumer sheep instead opted to use a superior, Open Source operating system, then he could have posted the source code to Sourceforge or something similar, and had the community as a whole inspect the source.

What's stopping him from doing this using Windows?

This would have led to an algorithm that would have required less generations, and used less polygons.

Really? I never knew Windows caused bad algorithms.

I'm as anti-big corporation and anti-Microsoft as anyone I know, but I'm getting a little tired of these posts that have no thought added. .NET is about as close to open as anything that Microsoft has developed. Just because Microsoft didn't make Mono doesn't mean that they are against it... they just have no business reason to create something that the open source community can do.

.NET/Mono are excellent runtimes, and C# is a very good and powerful language. Multiple languages compile to the same bytecode so that practically anyone can jump in and start. And it gives a great alternative to Java.