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Tile Designer

Over the summer of 2008 I decorated my bathroom. I knew from doing my kitchen the year before that the most painstaking and time-consuming part of the job would be tiling and I wondered if there was anyway it could be made less so?

I had just come back from BarCampBrighton, where I was inspired by Ollie Glass‘ workshop on writing genetic algorithms; something that turned out to be really simple. So I sat down, chucked some code together and produced this Tile Designer swf, built on a genetic algorithm:

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2 Responses to “Tile Designer”

  1. Ana Cuper Says:
    May 11th, 2010 at 6:42 pm

    Richard,
    I´m an architect in Brazil and I´m studying Genetic Algorithm. How can I get this source (Tile Designer) code from you?
    Waiting for your answer,
    Ana

  2. rich Says:
    August 12th, 2010 at 10:15 am

    May 11th. Sorry it’s taken me such a long time to answer Ana, I imagine you’re not waiting for a response any longer. If you are leave another message and I’ll see what I can do to help.

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