Genetic Programming: Evolution Of The Mona Lisa

 2008 12 Evolutionofmonalisa1 Roger Asling wrote a program that draws pattens of polygons generated from a string of digital "DNA." He then mutated the DNA and selected the DNA that generated polygons that looked more like the source image (in this case, Mona Lisa) to live and have mutant babies. He repeated the process 904,314 times until he ended up with a 50 polygon image that looks just like the Mona Lisa.

Genetic Programming: Evolution Of The Mona Lisa (Via Presurfer)