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Evolution of Mona Lisa Via Genetic Programming

Posted by kdawson on from the but-the-target-was-given dept.

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."

3 of 326 comments (clear)

  1. First by PincusJr · · Score: -1, Troll

    Whoopee!

  2. THE TITS THE TITS IT'S ALL ABOUT THE TITS!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Does Mona Lisa have big hooters?

  3. Re:Source code by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Well, this is what happens when you use Closed Source, Proprietary Operating Systems such as Windows. 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. This would have led to an algorithm that would have required less generations, and used less polygons. When will people understand that OSS is just plain superior?