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Merging biology and programming can lead to some very interesting developments: today I read an article found on Slashdot about the use of genetic programming to produce an image of the Mona Lisa.

Using just 50 semi-transparent polygons a very good version of the painting was produced using a process of random alteration and comparison to the original image. If the new random polygon alterations were closer in similarity to the old alterations then the new set of alterations was saved.

The post on the author’s weblog goes into a little more detail and shows a selection of images to illustrate the process.