Posts Tagged ‘genetic algorithm’

Tile Designer

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

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: