"Could you paint a replica of the Mona Lisa using only 50 semi transparent polygons? That is the challenge I decided to put my application up to. . ."
Art lovers & coders, get thee to Roger Alsing's weblog to see how he "evolved" an approximation of Leonardo da Vinci's iconic painting using a polygon rendering program. Very cool stuff.
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Back in December, The Parable of the Polygons took social media by storm. It's a simple little demonstration of how relatively small biases can lead to dramatic segregation effects, using cute cartoon polygons.
Looking for a nice demonstration of genetic algorithms? Here's a simulation that takes randomized connected collections of polygons and wheels and scores them for their ability to traverse a rugged 2D landscape.
Every few minutes I get an email from NASA telling me which button they've pressed on the Phoenix Robot, recently landed on Mars. And I'm only slightly exaggerating. OK, I'm exaggerating a lot.
The latest: Phoenix has been commanded to move its arm: