[binarymax]

Wow - 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 best - It was a better result but it really throttled the CPU and took down the browser on my weaker machine, so went with the single thread.

[aerique]

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).

[binarymax]

How was the event? Still sorry I couldn't make it. Looks like it was a lot of fun.

[aerique]

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 :-)

[guiambros]

btw, the original article about using Genetic Algorithms to derive Mona Lisa's image also generated quite a bit of interesting discussions here, 4 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=389727