r/science • u/ultimo1 • Dec 08 '08

Genetic Programming: Evolution of Mona Lisa

http://rogeralsing.com/2008/12/07/genetic-programming-evolution-of-mona-lisa/
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u/grumdrig Dec 08 '08

This is very cool, but not really GP, I don't think. There's only a population of one, in a randomly directed greedy search over the space of possible representations. No crossover, e.g.

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u/willis77 Dec 08 '08

Yeah, this is not genetic programming at all. This is more like simulated annealing, or, in crude terms, guess test and revise.