Here is a video of Roger Alsing’s EvoLisa project evolving an image of the Mona Lisa using random polygons.

The video was made using Roger’s source code modified with Dan Bystrom’s FitnessCalculator written in assembler. The program was changed to output a frame whenever the image improves by 5%. The program was run for 16 hours to generate the 660 frames used in the video below. The final image uses 242 polygons (average 6.9 points per polygon) and is the 7,052,061th generation. It only took 48 seconds to generate the first half of this video and the remaining 16 hours to generate the second half.

I used VirtualDub to combine the frames into a video. The music clip is Company I from Philip Glass.

By the way, Vimeo kicks butt on YouTube – higher quality videos and a better interface for uploading/managing videos.