This should really be choosing between two albums generated from the same (artist name, title, cover art), rather than completely different configurations.
I'm finding it difficult to judge fairly when the art, title and album name are different.
That was how we originally built it, but we found it less fun to rate in testing compared to this version. Hopefully the increased votes-per-person outweigh the loss of fidelity.
Unfortunately, for our team, we had to revert to a version of our generator that was about 5 hours old due to a issue with one of the library dependencies. We didn't catch this until last minute, so basically all of our low-level pixel analysis got thrown out the window.
It appears possible to compare two album covers that were created by the same generator (some of them have pretty distinct styles). Not sure if this was considered, or how it factors into scoring.
I was thinking the same thing - I got a lot of them in a row. If they're using standard techniques for ranking win/loss competitions, they're artificially decreasing the sigma (not entirely correct but, think of it as a margin of error) for no reason.
Funny, a website based on giving out coding problems didn't realize that coding bug. Then again, I've experienced tons of bugs when I was playing with their main software, so I'm not surprised.
As someone who competed in this contest, that wouldn't be the only bug. There was a lot of bugs in the submission/grading process - so much so that my team got frustrated enough to leave early.
We had glitches agreed because the kind of problems we introduced were the first for us - Game simulation. We have been doing ACM style programming contests which works brilliantly, this was an experiment. We know our mistakes and this will rock next time. Thanks for participating.
as someone who finds it easier to produce sounds than to give them useful and meaningful names after the fact, i love this. if i found a version that can deterministically generate a full ID3 tag of generated info given any mp3 input, i'd use it daily to fight the scourge of files named lkajf_39_q.mp3 in my output bin.
I'm finding it difficult to judge fairly when the art, title and album name are different.