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Very cool. Reminds me of: http://alteredqualia.com/visualization/evolve/ http://alteredqualia.com/visualization/evolve/ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3920

• _delirium 14y ago
  That one's pretty neat too, although in that context (specific target image) it seems like you could do it more directly than black-box optimization. The problem could be posed as something like: given N (overlappable) polygons, what is the way of coloring and arranging them that most closely matches the target image? That should be directly specifiable in a mathematical-optimization framework, and then you'd vary N to get different aesthetic properties. With the face example, black-box optimization might be the only practical choice, though, since the face-detection component is probably not easy to express in a nice mathematical form.
  • kandalf 14y ago
    This is touched on here: http://www.screamingduck.com/Article.php?ArticleID=46&Show=ABCE http://www.screamingduck.com/Article.php?ArticleID=46&Sh... I agree it's interesting, if not very practical for anything.