For the laser junkie. Just read that stuff http://hackaday.com/2016/01/22/pack-your-plywood-cuts-with-genetic-algortihms/ I thought you guys might like it or even try http://svgnest.com/ greater even the code is open source https://github.com/Jack000/SVGnest
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My brothers university thesis back in the 90’s was the use of the Genetic algorithm to manipulate Digital images to align and recognize contours and features, at that stage computer vision was still in its infancy. This was a really interesting project I sat in on.