Programmatic Evolution
There have been a couple links showing up recently on the interwebs that deal with evolution in programming.
This first one is a Flash demonstration of trying to design a car. It has a random set up and then tries twenty variations of it. Which ever one is best it uses and then tries twenty variations of that. And so on. It does get better actually!
This next one is even cooler. It takes the same idea but it varies the color, size position, etc of 50 translucent polygons and tries to recreate the Mona Lisa. Someone else them came along and made it so you could try it in a browser! (Though you have to have a recent build of Safari or Firefox for it to work.) If you don't want to try those browsers or just want to its results, you can use the contents of this text file to see how it did for me (paste it into the DNA import box and hit 'import').
13 December 2008 08:52am UTC • 235 views • 1 comment
Tagged with computerscience, evolution, programming
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Seamonster Mom
13 December 2008 05:23pm UTC
OK,well I don't understand this at all. But the car was cute (I did not make it to the end).