Selected Links

• Artificial Art and Artificial Intelligence
• weird bouncing things and noise: homepage van 'van der spek'
• Luna heeft een filmpje (qt) op basis van Milos’ software. Deze software heeft als basisfunctie het herhalen van x by x pixels. Het resultaat is verbluffend! Milos and Jurgen, you kick ass!
• bit-101 - cool java art
• nice recursive formulas in a genetic jacket: amazing galleries
• the computational beauty of nature: cbon homepage
• SIGGRAPH electronic theatre - Electronic Theatre stands alone in curating and showcasing the very best of computer animation since its inception. Hosted by the internet archive
• complexification.net - gallery of algorithmic art, source code included.

cellulaire automaten

• ima space traveler - herschrijfregels en kleur - surfen door landschappen
• Groovy Lava - Een heel uitgebreide cellulaire automaat, vooral bedoeld voor de schoonheid. Verschillende extra opties en extra regels, ook mooi als screensaver

Genetic Art

• GenArts, Inc.
• http://www.genarts.com/karl/ : Karl Sims
• Karl Sims: Artifical Evolution for Computer Graphics
• The Genetic-Evolutionary Art Process of Steven Rooke
• Brooks Glossary about Genetic Art
• genetic cross dissolve : Invented by Karl Sims in 1991, a means of generating a trajectory through any number of theoretical genetic relatives between any two given individuals. You line up a number of images, and GenCross produces video sequences passing through them, but visiting previously unseen and unpredictable intermediate forms.
• SBART Home Page; a program for Unix to generate pictures the Sims way
• nice cosmic recursive fractal formulas in a genetic jacket: amazing galleries

various

• deviantART; Xelium 04 by x4

(artificial) 3d evolution of plants

The first example of artificial evolution involves 3D plant structures which can be grown using a set of ``genetic'' parameters. Plant generation algorithms of various types have been shown to be useful examples of procedurally generated structures [29][25][22][21][16][1]. The model used in this work is described briefly below, but details have been omitted as the emphasis is on the evolutionary process.

Parameters describing fractal limits, branching factors, scaling, stochastic contributions, etc., are used to generate 3-dimensional tree structures consisting of connected segments. Growth rules use 21 genetic parameters and the hierarchy location of each segment in the tree to determine how fast that segment should grow, when it should generate new buds, and in which directions. The tree structures are grown in arbitrarily small increments for smooth simulation of development.

After a desirable tree structure has been evolved using interactive selection and the mutation methods described below, its phenotype can be saved for further manipulation. Solid polygonal branches can be generated with connected cylinders and cone shapes, and leaves can be generated by connecting sets of peripheral nodes with polygonal surfaces. Shading parameters, color, and bump textures can be assigned to make bark and leaf surfaces. These additional properties could also be selected and adjusted using artificial evolution, but due to the longer computation times involved to test samples, these parameters were adjusted by hand. In some cases, leaf shapes were evolved independently and then explicitly added to the tip segments of other evolved plant structures. A forest of plant structures created using these methods is shown in figure 3.