Art Evolver

From Hacker News via Andrew Hudson: This Artificial selection in the lab page describes an experiment with real live evolving visual patterns, analogous to what I do here but with pigments on guppies instead of pixels on a screen. Artificial Selection or Unnatural Selection might have been a better name for this blog :)

Three descendants of Roller Rink Robotic Thumbprint .

Getting more interesting shapes now that I have Perlin noise working.

I like his stuff. Check out Genetic Images, 1993 by Karl Sims : Genetic Images is a media installation in which visitors can interactively "evolve" abstract still images. A supercomputer generates and displays 16 images on an arc of screens. Visitors stand on sensors in front of the most aesthetically pleasing images to select which nes will survive and reproduce to make the next generation Here are some videos of his work with 3-D virtual creatures and motion graphics: Impressive, especially given that this was almost twenty years ago.