When you let #machinelearning evolve a new floor plan for your elementary school
Interesting work by Joel Simon http://www.joelsimon.net/evo_floorplans.html
Evolving Floorplans

Evolving Floorplans - 2017.

@janellecshane if they add "chalkboard visibility" fitness it might be even viable
@janellecshane It's interesting how the optimized versions look more biological - like cells and blood vessels.
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Wandering Shop
@bob Isn't it? Plants don't need to hang pictures on their cell walls.
@janellecshane I don't know why I'm so greatly amused by the word optimised in inverted commas.
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@janellecshane this seems a lot more organic and cool to live in than a square school...
@janellecshane Nifty. Now I'm wondering what you'd get if you added the constraint that rooms must be rectangular.

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mmm, needs constraints to fill a rectangularish space or semi-rectangularish space

but I suspect the end result would still resemble the inside of a beehive

fascinating

@janellecshane i see the ai revolution isn't coming any time soon
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@janellecshane interesting that the topography isn't really all that different, at least in the first image!
@janellecshane It makes me think of Little Belaire, a community in the book Engine Summer (a beloved old fav of mine).
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that machine learning thing would have worked better if someone told the program that there's a reason why the shape of a room tends to be formed of right angles