2018-01-03

Solving a Tetris-puzzle with GAs

The puzzle in the picture comes from a Stackoverflow's question (https://stackoverflow.com/q/47858717/3235496)

The general challenge posed is to tile a given region with a given set of polyominoes.

TL;DR

GAs aren't the most appropriate tool for this kind of puzzle. GAs tend to produce good but sub-optimal solutions and this behaviour is acceptable only for some combinatorial optimization problems.

Anyway the last example proposed finds a solution almost always (often in a short time) and GAs prove themselves a general, viable path especially when previous knowledge isn't available.

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