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What is Picbreeder? Picbreeder is a collaborative art application based on an idea called evolutionary art, which is a technique that allows pictures to be bred almost like animals. How does Picbreeder work? Picbreeder generates a population of images that a user can choose. The selected images are then used to evolve a new generation via Compositional Pattern Producing Networks (CPPNs). CPPNs are neural networks that contain activation functions which allow them to create and evolve images. Who created it? The original idea for Picbreeder came from Jimmy Secretan, who worked with Nick…

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