[apabepa]

I have been day dreaming about a program taking a factorio blueprint and running it through a genetic algorithm to produce a compressed but still functional version. I can imagine it could produce some interesting spaghetti layout! One way to ensure that the end result still works the same would be to only let the algorithm work with a selection of predefined refactoring steps that guarantee that the factory does not break. Another maybe more interesting approach would be to include some actual simulation that could test the factory. With the simulation the algorithm could work more freely with possibly destructive changes and apply them until the factory works as expected. This I figure would produce even more interesting spaghetti..