The animation below depicts a (15, 100)-ES following the moving optimum
(indicated by a light blue star) of a (modified) 30-dimensional
Fletcher-Powell function.
Due to memory limits and in order not to overcrowd the pictures with green
diamonds each of the 70 frames only displays the best five individuals of 10
consecutive generations.
The program IDL produced the original
animation. The resulting GIFs were then put together with a tool called
gifmerge
written by Mark Podlipec.