Genetic Image is a project that I started in the mid fall of 2005. The project is partly a revamping of Karl Sims’ “Genetic Images” project from way back when in 1994.

My version is implemented on Java and can run happily on your computer, provided you have an up-to-date JRE. It also employs type-based equation building. The fundamental unit of Genetic Image is a function, which takes some types as inputs, and returns another type as its output. There are well over 500 functions in Genetic Image, which can produce a vast variety of different results.