ANantirez·Nov 5, 2024
Related, but in C language and with a different search algorithm: https://github.com/antirez/shapeme
In Low-poly image generation using evolutionary algorithms in Ruby (2023)antirez
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Evolve images using simulated annealing
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| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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4 sourcesThis reminds me of a project I found by Antirez (the creator of Redis) recently called shapeme: https://github.com/antirez/shapeme - which uses simulated annealing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_annealing to approximate an image using triangles. It took me down a really interesting rabbit hole: "The name of the algorithm comes from annealing in metallurgy, a technique involving heating and controlled cooling of a material to increase the size of its crystals and reduce their defects."
I thought it was really interesting that a useful algorithm like this was created and possibly influenced by a natural process. I wonder if this repo uses the same type of algorithm?
In Show HN: I built a tool to generate triangulated art from imagesVery cool looking results! In case somebody is interested in a C implementation, I wrote one some time ago: https://github.com/antirez/shapeme
In Show HN: Primitive PicturesShapeme – Evolve images using simulated annealing
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