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I'm just testing it and it takes ~1 minute per photo on a quad-core i7.

• antirez 10y ago
  Yep, I later read the technique used by the OP, and is quite different compared to programs similar to this one, including mine, where a fixed set of shapes is evolved in order to find an optimal arrangement. This is a complex optimization problem that takes a lot of time. In the OP implementation old shapes are never re-arranged, just new ones are added in order to decrease the error. While the visual effect is still very interesting, you need more shapes this way to approximate the same level of details, and is in some way less interesting IMHO, at least conceptually, compared to "arrange N items to get the best result" which looks like a quasi-human task.