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\$\begingroup\$ Excellent image. I've been working on something similar using ellipses myself. (Not posted yet.) However my GA hardly ever manages to use a single ellipse to represent a star, electing instead to have a bright one in the background with multiple dark ones overlapping it. I wonder why yours discovers this and mine doesn't. \$\endgroup\$

N. Virgo
– N. Virgo

2016-02-03 03:54:36 +00:00
Commented Feb 3, 2016 at 3:54
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\$\begingroup\$ @Nathaniel I noticed on some runs that it does this as well. I use a very slight penalty (score increase) based on the program size, which is intended to favor solutions using fewer ellipses. I don't really know if it's working, but since I implemented it I haven't seen the "multi-ellipse star" as much. \$\endgroup\$

neocpp
– neocpp

2016-02-03 04:05:25 +00:00
Commented Feb 3, 2016 at 4:05

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