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Evolution of Mona Lisa Via Genetic Programming 326

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday December 09, 2008 @01:07AM 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."

Comment Re:Transcript (Just Intros - Working On The Rest) (Score 2, Insightful) 478

by Vladimir on Tuesday January 03, 2006 @10:10PM (#14389420) Attached to: Going Deep Inside Vista's Kernel Architecture

So specifically what we've been doing is taking every binary in the system and assigning it a layer number, which is a rank in a directed acyclic graph. There's about 5,500 binaries in the system.

oh, they know about acyclic graphs, good. I bet they have only 5500 levels in it. On a side note: Debian GNU/Linux provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 15490 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine... (http://www.debian.org/) So why keep re-inventing the wheel, just ship vista with msdpkg/msapt...

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