Re: Programmers Contest: Fit pictures on a page
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Re: Programmers Contest: Fit pictures on a page

From: Peter Hansen <peter@engcorp.com>
Date: Thu Jun 30 2005 - 19:09:02 CEST

Don wrote:
> I was thinking maybe you could use a genetic algorithm, where the fitness
> function would caluclate the amount of waste. I'm not very familar with how
> to implement this sort of thing, though.

This problem is well suited to the abilities of genetic algorithms, and
this would probably be an excellent way to learn more about them, even
if you don't get the best solution.

-Peter
Received on Thu Sep 29 16:40:18 2005