Monthly Archives: September 2015

This past week, I ran several tests in attempts to find the perfect parameters for a genetic algorithm to solve the 17×17 challenge. My process was fairly simple: I would pick a range and granularity of values for each of … Continue reading →

This week, I jumped right in and implemented / started testing a genetic algorithm on the 17×17 challenge. I didn’t start with a 17×17 grid right away though, and instead focused on smaller, more manageable sizes first. The algorithm uses … Continue reading →

This semester I’m working on solving the 17×17 problem with genetic algorithms. Last week, I started work on the Python script – implementing functions to generate random color grids (for the initial population) and score them based on the number of … Continue reading →