{"id":37638,"date":"2011-11-20T04:47:20","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T04:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/matthen-this-animation-shows-the-evolution-of-a\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T14:33:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T21:33:30","slug":"matthen-this-animation-shows-the-evolution-of-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/matthen-this-animation-shows-the-evolution-of-a\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-37638 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/matthen-this-animation-shows-the-evolution-of-a\/attachment\/37639\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_lumjlbnt7I1qfg7o3o1_r3_400-100x100.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_lumjlbnt7I1qfg7o3o1_r3_400-100x100.gif 100w, https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_lumjlbnt7I1qfg7o3o1_r3_400-300x300.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.matthen.com\/post\/13042359658\/this-animation-shows-the-evolution-of-a-shape-as\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">matthen<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This animation shows the <strong>evolution of a shape<\/strong>, as it grows to become more and more <strong>circular<\/strong>. \u00a0I created <strong>generations <\/strong>of these shapes, and simulated each generation creating a new generation. \u00a0Two shapes produced offspring which looked like themselves, with a chance of <strong>mutations<\/strong>, and shapes were <strong>more likely to be parents if they had larger areas<\/strong>. \u00a0This means the self intersecting shapes soon die out, and big blobs result! [<a href=\"http:\/\/pastebin.com\/E9TXRwZZ\" title=\"Code to play with\">code<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Evolutionary_algorithm\" title=\"Evolutionary Algorithms\">more<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>matthen: This animation shows the evolution of a shape, as it grows to become more and more circular. \u00a0I created generations of these shapes, and simulated each generation creating a new generation. \u00a0Two shapes produced offspring which looked like themselves, with a chance of mutations, and shapes were more likely to be parents if they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-37638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-9N4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37640,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37638\/revisions\/37640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}