Leaving Ecotect

Another strategy would be to seek for configurations that have as much connection with open space as possible. In other words: minimize the amount of blind walls.
For one island, this goes like this:


Without the streets taken into account (I acknowledge this is an err, but i need to figure out a way to 'discount' the walls facing a street, because the streets are so small that they block out a significant amount of daylight) it looks like this:


As you can see, Galapagos is more or less able to seek in the good direction. It generates better options as you let it run longer. This is the merit of the 'progressive seek algorithm'. Its very satisfying to see that it actually works.


And with the streets added and a quick daylightfactor calculation:



the result is not optimal, in a sense that there are other configurations that have a better ecotect daylight result. But still it is a good option, that follows from common sense.