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I did something similar around 2008: (but in Lisp!): https://github.com/smanek/ga

Had to write my own bitmap processing library, since couldn't find anything fast enough off the shelf :-D Handled alpha blending, file i/o, etc (checkout the bitmap.lisp and color.lisp files in the repo).

Here's a video of it 'evolving' a picture of John McCarthy (best individual from each generation): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_VFZ_ON0A8

And here it is doing the Mona Lisa: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1ZPSbImvFE

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