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.
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).
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:
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.