Straight-forward C implementation of a genetic algorithm with crossover and mutation, using OpenGL to render each individual as an overlap of triangles.
The main goal of this project was to experiment with different parameters and find a good way to encode pictures into DNA strings, therefore the performance is not optimal (no multi-threading), but still decent.
Compile with gcc -o genetic_painter genetic_painter.c -lGL -lGLEW -lglut -lglfw -lm -O3 and simply run it as ./genetic_painter <img.png>.
You may want to change the hyperparameters defined in the source to your liking, however I found them to be quite optimal for this specific cost function (mona-200.png).