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Re:Proposed New Go GC: Transaction-Oriented Collector by gtirloni on Friday June 24, 2016 @11:25AM (#11970467)
What is a generational art program? If you don't mind me asking.
Re:Proposed New Go GC: Transaction-Oriented Collector by Kapura on Friday June 24, 2016 @12:03PM (#11970859)
Well, in my case specifically, it was a program that generated coloured images based on a set of simple rules (namely, don't reuse the same RGB colour for any pixel & try to be as close to the colour of neighbouring pixels as possible). I wrote a brief overview around the time I finished the first version[1].

More recently, I wrote a new routine which generates several of those and then averages the RGB channel values on a per-pixel basis, and then repeatedly re-averages the original images with those average images to create more "generations." I haven't written anything up about that because the code required to sum and average pixels in a PNG is significantly less interesting.

[1] https://medium.com/@kapuramax/procedural-image-generation-in...

Re:Proposed New Go GC: Transaction-Oriented Collector by spriggan3 on Friday June 24, 2016 @12:44PM (#11971282)
s/generational/generative ?