It's super mario bros on the background. You can use your keys to control him.
I noticed! Very cool.
Genetic algorithms, Mona Lisa and JavaScript + Canvas
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Re: Genetic algorithms, Mona Lisa and JavaScript + Canvas
#12Reminded me of this previous submission[1]: http://alteredqualia.com/visualization/evolve/ [1] comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=392036
Re: Genetic algorithms, Mona Lisa and JavaScript + Canvas
#13Wow - 2009. Excellent post. I recently entered a competition (February 2013) and used this technique without having seen this blog. I also used webworkers and SVG. Source: https://github.com/binarymax/randriaan Demo: http://binarymax.com/randriaan.html Sorry, FF or Chrome only (because of how I load the webworkers from the same page) @tlarkworthy - I had a version that did 12 images for each generation and chose the…
I also did the same for that competition (while having seen the blog): http://github.com/aerique/vbwga
My "artistic" spin was I wanted to reproduce the Victory Boogie Woogie using only circles (see vbw-example.pdf and vbw-example-2.pdf in previous link).
Re: Genetic algorithms, Mona Lisa and JavaScript + Canvas
#14Wow - 2009. Excellent post. I recently entered a competition (February 2013) and used this technique without having seen this blog. I also used webworkers and SVG. Source: https://github.com/binarymax/randriaan Demo: http://binarymax.com/randriaan.html Sorry, FF or Chrome only (because of how I load the webworkers from the same page) @tlarkworthy - I had a version that did 12 images for each generation and chose the…
I also did the same for that competition (while having seen the blog): http://github.com/aerique/vbwga My "artistic" spin was I wanted to reproduce the Victory Boogie Woogie using only circles (see vbw-example.pdf and vbw-example-2.pdf in previous link).
How was the event? Still sorry I couldn't make it. Looks like it was a lot of fun.
Re: Genetic algorithms, Mona Lisa and JavaScript + Canvas
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
I also did the same for that competition (while having seen the blog): http://github.com/aerique/vbwga My "artistic" spin was I wanted to reproduce the Victory Boogie Woogie using only circles (see vbw-example.pdf and vbw-example-2.pdf in previous link).
How was the event? Still sorry I couldn't make it. Looks like it was a lot of fun.
It was good fun especially the drinks afterwards were a good occassion to talk with the other developers and organizers.
The jury was heavily biased towards algorithms that created VBWs from nothing so we didn't stand a chance :-)
Re: Genetic algorithms, Mona Lisa and JavaScript + Canvas
#16While not a "learning" technique directly, this reminds me of this amazing work: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/kopf/pixelart/
Re: Genetic algorithms, Mona Lisa and JavaScript + Canvas
#17I'm not trolling, but this appears to work pretty poorly. Does anyone know any better approaches to approximating images like this?
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#18I'm not trolling, but this appears to work pretty poorly. Does anyone know any better approaches to approximating images like this?
Poorly compared to what?
Re: Genetic algorithms, Mona Lisa and JavaScript + Canvas
#19It's super mario bros on the background. You can use your keys to control him.
Not "Bros.", "Land"... (This game was a formative experience for me, so please bear with my nitpickery... :)
Re: Genetic algorithms, Mona Lisa and JavaScript + Canvas
#20Next step: run a genetic meta-algorithm to optimize the initial parameters... judge fitness based on, say, result_quality / runtime...
(Or fastest-to-achieve-reasonable-result...)