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<body><div>i'm not looking for a heuristic approach. anyway, i think this is the one you remember: http://alteredqualia.com/visualization/evolve/. but it actually uses a form of simulated annealing and it uses polygones (not rects).</div><div>But in fact i did something using rectangles and a genetic algorithm (inspired by the above): http://kallaballa.soup.io/post/466848221/Again-im-trying-to-approximate-pixel-art</div><div><br></div><div>On Mon, 03 Nov 2014 18:36:24 +0100, Metalab General Discussion List <metalab@lists.metalab.at> wrote:<br></div><br><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0.80ex; border-left: #0000FF 2px solid; padding-left: 1ex"><div dir="ltr">This sounds a bit like the "genetic algorithm approximating the mona lisa with rectangles" a few years back. Depending on what you're using it for, there may be some original research involved :)<div><br></div><div>can't wait to see the result tbh</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-11-03 17:33 GMT+01:00 Amir Hassan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amir@viel-zu.org" target="_blank">amir@viel-zu.org</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">i'm looking for a method to approximate arbitrary vector graphic shapes (circles, rects, bezier curves, etc.) with line segments.<br>
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does anybody know the proper search terms for an algorithm doing that?<br>
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greets,<br>
amir<br>
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