Genetic Image Painter

Tries to replicate a given image using a genetic algorithm. Project is for fun and demonstration.

Image preparation

• Convert to grayscale
• Save as raw pixels (*.data in GIMP, *.raw in IrfanView)

Usage

monalisa <width> <height> path/to/image.data

Prerequisites

• SFML 2 Libraries

Build

Tested only on linux with standard SFML 2 installation and GCC 5.4

mkdir build
cd build
cmake path/to/sources
cmake --build .

To do

• improve performance
• ensure it builds at least with MSVC, GCC and Clang
• if filesystem not available, fallback to c++11/14 and use boost
• if no boost, disable additional checks and let it crash ;)
• multithreading
• load other kinds of images (jpg, bmp)
• multicolor images