Programmers Contest: Fit pictures on a page

[Peter Hansen]

Don wrote:
> I was thinking maybe you could use a genetic algorithm, where the fitness
> function would caluclate the amount of waste. I'm not very familar with how
> to implement this sort of thing, though.

This problem is well suited to the abilities of genetic algorithms, and 
this would probably be an excellent way to learn more about them, even 
if you don't get the best solution.

-Peter