tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959356083618071167.post3540427287557475370..comments2024-02-24T04:33:15.835-08:00Comments on Beautiful Pixels: Link dump: Genetic Polygons, Scored Gameplay, ActiveX alternative, Gamebryo Training, Visualizing Files, Opening FilesVincent Scheibhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14142807255428586912noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959356083618071167.post-48382290822080858572008-12-12T08:11:00.000-08:002008-12-12T08:11:00.000-08:00WinDirStat rules so much it's not funny. Thanks fo...WinDirStat rules so much it's not funny. Thanks for spreading the word; I've been passing it on to people for years at Autodesk.<BR/><BR/>Two other free utilities of note: MWSnap is a pretty good image capture utility - I turn off the hotkeys, however. Xenu tells you which links on your webpages are dead. But, really, WinDirStat is just the best; make sure to click and hover on everything in the view, it's all quite interactive.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959356083618071167.post-1235057003038887472008-12-11T17:03:00.000-08:002008-12-11T17:03:00.000-08:00Gah, lost a big comment.Anyway, the gist was that ...Gah, lost a big comment.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, the gist was that the mona lisa thing is lame. I was taken in at first too, but it's not really genetic, just a randomized hill climbing optimization. Randomly perturb your state -- see if things got better, if not try another random step. Pretty close to the worst way to optimize given that you have so much information available waiting to be extracted from the image.<BR/><BR/>If anything is neat it's that the worst possible algorithm still can get some decent output if you wait long enough.baxissimohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08238692561509849252noreply@blogger.com