Geoff 🏴Going through old photos from my Twitter archive, this is an attempt at directed evolution in software using PHP (precisely the wrong language to use, but I was learning it at the time and it was a useful exercise).
The program throws a randomly sized, coloured (rgba), positioned and orientated ellipse at the "canvas", compares it to the target image, and keeps it if it's closer. This is about 150k iterations, and took something like 12 hours. Not brilliant, but starting to get somewhere on a P2
The program throws a randomly sized, coloured (rgba), positioned and orientated ellipse at the "canvas", compares it to the target image, and keeps it if it's closer. This is about 150k iterations, and took something like 12 hours. Not brilliant, but starting to get somewhere on a P2
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