PRIMARY IMAGE MUTATION. “Nagoya University researchers Yasuhiro Suzuki and Tomohiro Suzuki’s evolutionary painting algorithm, which takes example paintings of a given style and progressively mutates them – cutting and splicing and flipping elements, throwing out at each evolution any images that don’t match the user’s initial stylistic choices.”
http://www.gizmag.com/creative-ai-algorithmic-art-painting-fool-aaron/36106/