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|  | ##### What was Picbreeder?<br>Picbreeder was a collaborative art application based on an idea called evolutionary art,<br>which is a technique that allows pictures to be bred almost like animals. For example,<br>you could evolve a butterfly into a bat by selecting parents that looked like bats.<br>This is a reconstruction of the [original site](https://web.archive.org/web/20160304023434/http://picbreeder.org/) using AI.<br>[Read the blog post.](https://pub.sakana.ai/picbreeder-vlm/)<br><br>

# Breeding Console

Branching from **“Apple (ancestor)”**—published by a human Picbreeder user. The top-left tile is the original; the rest are its mutations. Keep what you like and Evolve.

Pick the image(s) you like by **clicking** them—a selected tile turns **green**—then press **Evolve**. Your picks carry over unchanged and the rest of the grid is re-bred from them by mutation and crossover. Press **Space** or **Enter** to evolve selected— **u** or **z** to undo, **r** to restart, **x** to roll again.

## Controls

Basic Advanced Color

■Quit◀Back▶Forward↻Redo▶Evolve💾Save🌐Publish

## Guidance

Focus:Whole ImageColorStructure

Small ChangesBig Changes

## Display

Resolution:96 px128 px160 px224 px256 px384 px512 px768 px (slow)Population:1015202530

## Population

▸ DNA

Inspect and tweak the CPPN of the **most-recently-selected** tile (outlined **orange** above). Edits change that image **in the grid right** away; **Reset to original** reverts.

Generation 00 selected

Each tile is painted by a CPPN: for every pixel the network reads _(x, y, r, bias)_—where _r_ is distance from center—and outputs a color. Selection edits the network's weights, connections, and activation functions. Everything runs in your browser. [« Back to the gallery](https://pub.sakana.ai/picbreeder-vlm/breed/index.html) · [About the project](https://pub.sakana.ai/picbreeder-vlm/)