Shapeme – Evolve images using simulated annealing

Yep... it was created like: let's try this, let's try this, hey cool! And abandoned. No refactoring, and this means also that to try new strategies is boring because most of the code is not ready to change parameters easily. Should not be too hard to refactor it, I waited to do this before the release, and I waited 6 years, so I released it :-)

bkirwi• 12 years ago

If you find yourself creating a throwaway just so you can criticize someone's coding style on a quick graphics experiment, you may want to reconsider your life choices.

antirez4• 12 years ago

Ok refactored it a bit! At least the obvious things. I hope I did not broken anything since there are no tests in the program, but looks like it's working as before.

phkahler• 12 years ago

Now do video compression with it. Do the first frame just like this, then start with that as the first generation to evolve the next frame and so on. Maybe have a way to dynamically vary the number of triangles - especially when the scene changes, you may even want to discard everything and start over if the first generation on a frame is a bad fit. Resolution independent video compression at last ;-)

based2• 12 years ago

http://www.arte.tv/guide/fr/044053-000/la-joconde-devoilee?a...

fogleman• 12 years ago

I also used simulated annealing for this problem. But I only added one triangle at a time.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3848108/reproducing-image...

I'll see if I can dig up the code.

It's a fun problem. I still think about it a lot.

MasterScrat• 12 years ago

FYI this is from the guy who makes Redis.

Shapeme – Evolve images using simulated annealing

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