gkemmey / genetic_art

Uses a genetic algorithm to recreate an image.

Genetic Art

Genetic Art was an experiment with genetic algorithms in Ruby. Genetic Art recreates an image out of triangles using a genetic algorithm. This project was inspired by Roger Johansson's post at http://rogeralsing.com/2008/12/07/genetic-programming-evolution-of-mona-lisa/

Ahead of Its Time

This project, @wkemmey, who had the idea to do this project and worked closely with myself to write the code, and Roger Johansson were clearly ahead of their time: https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/25/18023266/ai-art-portrait-christies-obvious-sold

Dependencies

Genetic Art requires the following dependencies to run:

ImageMagik

Genetic Art uses ImageMagik for image manipulation software. Information on installing ImageMagik can be found at http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php

RMagik

RMagik is a Ruby wrapper around the ImageMagik API. To install RMagik type

% gem install rmagik

How To Use

1. Before running the script, you will need to change some code. On line 5 change the line

    % @OUTPUT_FILE = 'images/lisa_simpson'
   

to something meaningful to your image.

2. Additionally, on line 10 change

    % @TARGET_IMAGE = ImageList.new("lisa_simpson.jpg")
   

the filename in quotes to the proper target image.

3. After making those changes, simply type

    % ruby genetic_art_lcr10.rb
   

to run the script.

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