gene46 Official Blog

English articles on Genetic Algorithms, Generative Art & gene46 development — 13 articles

🎮 Guides & How-To

🎮 How to Play gene46 — Complete Swipe Evolution Guide

Everything from your first swipe to advanced Fork strategies. Soul & Stamina systems, selection tips, and FAQs.

🌸 Tips for Breeding Beautiful Generative Art

Advanced selection strategies: defining aesthetic themes, selection consistency, optimal individuals to keep per generation, and when to fork.

StrategyArt

🧬 Genetic Algorithm Deep Dives

🧬 What is a Genetic Algorithm (GA)? How It Works & Core Processes

From Darwin's natural selection to encoding, fitness evaluation, selection, crossover, and mutation — the complete GA primer.

Algorithm BasicsScience

⚡ Crossover in Genetic Algorithms — DNA Blending Explained

Single-point, two-point, uniform, and real-valued (BLX-α) crossover — how parents combine to produce superior offspring.

AlgorithmDeep Dive

🔥 Why Mutation Matters — Diversity & Evolution

The critical role of mutation in preventing premature convergence, maintaining genetic diversity, and enabling evolutionary escape from local optima.

AlgorithmDeep Dive

🌀 Local Optima in Genetic Algorithms — How to Escape with Fork

Why evolution stagnates, what local optima are, and how gene46's Fork feature implements an island model to break evolutionary deadlock.

AlgorithmStrategy

🎨 Generative Art & Technology

🎨 Generative Art & Biological Evolution — The Fusion in gene46

How generative art history, biological evolution, and Interactive Evolutionary Computation (IEC) converge in gene46's swipe evolution model.

ArtPhilosophy

📐 Line Art vs. Mosaic — DNA Structure in gene46 Compared

Technical comparison of Bézier-curve Line Art DNA vs. CPPN-based Mosaic DNA: how they're encoded, how they evolve differently, which to choose.

TechnicalArt

🤝 Human-AI Collaborative Design — Interactive Evolutionary Computation

How human aesthetic judgment and AI-driven evolution combine in IEC — the philosophy, research history, and future of human-AI creative collaboration.

PhilosophyFuture

🚀 History & Real-World Applications

📜 A History of Genetic Algorithms — From Darwin to Holland

Timeline from Darwin's natural selection (1859) through Turing, Holland's Schema Theorem (1975), Picbreeder (2011), and gene46 (2026).

HistoryScience

🚀 Real-World GA Applications — NASA, Shinkansen, Finance & More

GA applications in real engineering: NASA's evolved space antenna, Shinkansen nose aerodynamics, portfolio optimization, drug discovery, and game level generation.

ApplicationsEngineering

📢 Developer Logs

📢 Dev Log Aug 1: PWA Installation Guide Modal & Japanese Swipe Labels

Implementing a step-by-step PWA installation guide, localizing swipe labels to Japanese (っぽい/ぽくない), and fixing ads.txt delivery via Cloudflare Workers.

Dev LogAugust 2026

📢 Dev Log Jul 23: Soul Shop, Stamina System & Bulk Swipe Sync

Soul Shop implementation, offline-first bulk swipe sync architecture, local storage persistence, and Cloudflare D1 database design decisions.

Dev LogJuly 2026