Evolving Stencils for Typefaces: Combining Machine Learning, User’s Preferences and Novelty

Table 3

Experimental Parameters.

parameter	value
generations	1000
population size	100
elite size	1
selection	Tournament
tournament size	3
rate crossover	0.5
max genes	40
rate deletion	0.05
rate insertion	0.05
rate modification	1 / genotype size
grid size	20 x 20
min length permitted (value relative to grid size)	0.15
control points angles permitted (rotation angles in degrees and relative to the line segment that connects the endpoints)
control points lengths permitted (values relative to the distance between the endpoints)
thickness values permitted (values relative to the phenotype size)
phenotype size	32 x 32
hill-climbers	1