Butterfly — DNA — Picbreeder · VLM
| ##### What was Picbreeder? Picbreeder was a collaborative art application based on an idea called evolutionary art, which is a technique that allows pictures to be bred almost like animals. For example, you could evolve a butterfly into a bat by selecting parents that looked like bats. This is a reconstruction of the original site using AI. Read the blog post. |
Analyze Image DNA
Loading this image’s DNA…
This is the picture's DNA—the CPPN that paints it. The graph on the left is its structure; the intermediate pattern at each node is shown as the node itself. Click a node to see its output enlarged on the right and to reveal a ring of controls; drag empty space to pan, drag the zoom slider (or pinch the canvas) to zoom, and drag a link up/down to change its weight. Every change re-renders instantly.
Click the node you want to link → … ( cancel)
Fit−+drag to pan · double-click to add a node · drag a node to move it · drag its ⊕ handle onto another node to link · drag a link up/down to change its weight
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Border color = node kind: input gray color output (H/S/V). Links: positive negative (saturation = strength) disabled.
Final image
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34 nodes · 108 active links
Selected node
Click a node in the graph to render its output here.
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Instructions
- Click a node to select it—its output renders on the right and a ring of circular buttons appears:
=identity,sin,cos,gaussian,sigmoid—set the node's activation function.Lnk—start a new link from this node, then click the target node.Edt—open a panel to edit the node's incoming weights.Del—delete the node and every link to or from it.
- Click a link for its ring:
Nod(insert a node mid-link),Del,±(type a weight). Or just drag a link up/down to slide its weight value (most weights lie between −3 and 3). - Drag a node to move it—its links follow. Drag the small ⊕ handle on the node's edge onto another node to wire up a new link (a click on the handle does the same in two steps).
- Double-click empty space to add a new node (or double-click a link to split it with a node).
- Drag empty space to pan; drag the zoom slider in the toolbar (or pinch the canvas) to zoom; Fit re-centers everything.
- When you like the result, Breed from this DNA to evolve it further, or Download the genome.