I saw a discussion about this in the procedural art thread, and had a question. When the image "evolves," what is it that''s actually "evolving"? An algorithm, like color[x][y][RED] = sin(x)*tan(y*2), etc.? BTW, Page generation = 0 for this page...

yes, that''s one way. Procedural textures are parameterized and are often the summation (or whatever) of several functions. A GA can evolve the parameters and types of functions to be mixed

Another option is to evolve the functions directly using genetic programming.



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Have you read the paper all the way through?

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Have you read the paper all the way through?

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How could I have when you posted it a half hour after I made this thread?

But yes, now I have.

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But yes, now I have.

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Excellent! Are you a better man because of it?

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But yes, now I have.

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Excellent! Are you a better man because of it?

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That depends on how you define "better..." I certainly learned something, though.

I wonder if you could train a neural net with pieces of abstract art, and get it to come up with a fitness for each of the child images...

I wonder if you could train a neural net with pieces of abstract art

There was a post at flipcode a while ago -- a code of the day i think -- where a guy had used an ANN to give graphical output. If I remember correctly, he fed different wave forms into the net and the output was used to create an animated psychedelic effect for a demo he was making. It looked pretty groovy.

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