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From: davis@ilog.fr (Harley Davis)
Subject: Re: Q: GA work for evolutionary art
In-Reply-To: maxk@cogs.susx.ac.uk's message of 27 Mar 1995 12:00:09 GMT
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Date: 30 Mar 1995 11:31:29 GMT


In article <3l69c9$4kc@infa.central.susx.ac.uk> maxk@cogs.susx.ac.uk (Maximilian King) writes:

   could anybody point me to what people have been doing in the
   'evolutionary art' field recently? (I am thinking along the lines
   of Karl Sims and Stephen Latham's work). I am using the GA term
   loosely - these guys select the most aesthetic-looking sets from a
   population of evolved forms (plants and textures too) and continue
   the process until pleased with the shapes.  In a broader context,
   what other applications of GAs require high degrees of constant
   user-feedback in the selection process?

My program Imogene is very similar to Karl Sims' work, although the
beauty of the images generated is limited by performance constraints
of a PC running Windows in 256 color mode.  From the FAQ:

 Imogene:
     Imogene  is  a  Windows  3.1 shareware program which generates pretty
     images using GENETIC PROGRAMMING.  The program  displays  GENERATIONs
     of  9  images,  each generated using a formula applied to each pixel.
     (The formulae are initially randomly computed).  You can then  select
     those images you prefer.  In the next generation, the nine images are
     generated by combining  and  mutating  the  formulae  for  the  most-
     preferred  images  in  the  previous  generation.   The  result  is a
     SIMULATION of natural SELECTION in which images  evolve  toward  your
     aesthetic preferences.
 
     Imogene  supports  different  color  maps,  palette animation, saving
     images to .BMP files, changing the wallpaper to nice images, printing
     images,  and  several other features. Imogene works only in 256 color
     mode and requires a floating point coprocessor and a  386  or  better
     CPU.
 
     Imogene   is   based   on  work  originally  done  by  Karl  Sims  at
     (ex-)Thinking Machines for the CM-2 massively parallel computer - but
     you   can   use   it   on   your   PC.  You  can  FTP  Imogene  from:
     ftp.cc.utexas.edu:/pub/genetic-programming/code/imogenes.zip
 
     Contact: Harley Davis, ILOG S.A., 2  Avenue  Gallini,  BP  85,  94253
     Gentilly Cedex, France. tel: +33 1 46 63 66 66  <davis@ilog.fr>

-- Harley Davis
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