DVD   Extras

 Progeny

• Progeny (video)
• Progeny description (pdf)
• Films by Christine Gorbach and Gary Lee Nelson 2000-2006 (pdf)

 Evolving Lindenmayer Systems. Genetic Snow Flakes

"Pfeiffer", is an Evolutionary Computation system based on Lindenmayer grammar that generates snow flakes in your browser.

• Compress standalone version of the software "Pfeiffer"
• Webpage with examples of Snow Flakes generated by Pfeiffer

 Blot

"Blot" is evolutionary Generative Abstract Art.

With Blot I am exploring the aesthetic possibilities of pure mathematical equations. I am specifically seeking out forms that are organic enough to challenge any viewer's notions of what mathematics can visually represent. The vehicle for this exploration is interactive artificial evolution, a computational analogy to natural selection, which allows me to literally grow and create complex and beautiful images using equations as DNA.

• Blot (software)
• Blot webpage with examples (images and video)

 ArTVox

ArTVox is the result of joining two evolutionary environments, one in the sound domain and the other in the visual domain, aiming to obtain some kind of visual and sound compositions. ArTVox resulted from the union of JaVox, applied to sound production, and ArTLab, which produces abstract visual compositions. In ArTVox, each visual composition can have an associated sound sequence. A heuristic approach based on Kandinsky's associations of visual and sound aspects was applied to associate visual and sound characteristics.

To work properly, ArTVox needs JRE (Java Runtime Environment) or JDK (Java Development Kit) installed. With JRE it is necessary to install the soundbank from Sun. It can be downloaded from:

http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/sound/soundbanks.html

Acknowledgements

This research work is part of the AURAL project, supported by FAPESP process 05/56186-9. We would like to thank PIBIC/CNPq program , CenPRA and FAPESP for making this research possible.

 MasterPiece

MasterPiece is an evolutionary environment applied to the production of visual compositions. Objects inspired on Kandinsky's Composition VIII (1923) were programmed in Java. Automatic visual compositions In ArTVox, each visual composition can have an associated sound sequence. A heuristic approach based on Kandinsky's associations of visual and sound aspects was applied to associate visual and sound characteristics.

To work properly, ArTVox needs JRE (Java Runtime Environment) or JDK (Java Development Kit) installed. With JRE it is necessary to install the soundbank from Sun. It can be downloaded from:

http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/sound/soundbanks.html

Acknowledgements

This research work is part of the AURAL project, supported by FAPESP process 05/56186-9. We would like to thank PIBIC/CNPq program , CenPRA and FAPESP for making this research possible.

Supplementary material for Chapters

Part I   Evolutionary Art

 Evolutionary Search for the Artistic Rendering of Photographs

J. P. Collomosse

Supporting resources for "A Search for Salient Paintings" (Section 2.2)

 Evolution and Collective Intelligence of the Electric Sheep

Scott Draves

Examples of videos and images generated by "Electric Sheep":

Part II   Evolutionary Music

 Evolutionary Computation Applied to Sound Synthesis

Experimental software for applying evolutionary computation to sound synthesis.

This software includes a software synthesizer, two search algorithms, a sound attribute library, some utility code and some experimental scripts which use all of the above. It can be used to reproduce results from the chapter "Evolutionary Computation Applied to Sound Synthesis".

Webpage: http://www.skynet.ie/~jmmcd/research.htm

 Evolutionary Computing for Expressive Music Performance

BodyAndSoul-Inexpressive.wav and BodyAndSoul-Transformed.wav are respectively the inexpressive transcription of the first phrase of "Body and Soul", and the corresponding expressive version as generated by the model. Similarly for "Once I Loved".

Part III   Real World Applications

 Evolutionary and Swarm Design in Science, Art, and Music

  Architects' Experience with an Emergent Design Tool

A stripped down compressed version of the Genr8 website (including source code etc)

Some auxiliary material pertaining some of the projects:

 Evolving Human Faces

EvoFIT composite system installer (Windows)

Video with EvoFIT Eigenvector examples

Part IV   Artistic Perspectives

  Artificial Art made by Artificial Ants

Examples of images and music generated by AntMusic and AntPainting

• Examples of Mp3 and Midi files generated by AntMusic
• Images generated by AntPainting
• Demo files generated by AntPainting:
• Demo1
• Demo2
• Demo3

 Embedding of Pixel-Based Evolutionary Algorithms in My Global Art Process

G�nter Bachelier

Two populations of images generated with the new evolutionary art process described in the chapter:

• Subpopulation-M04-05-08b-1
• Subpopulation-M05-06-11-2

 Evolving Structure in Liquid Music

J. J. Ventrella

Test the software application Musical Gene Pool

Part V   Future Perspectives

 The Evolution of Artistic Filters

• Chapter images
  
• Examples taken from a single run
  
  • Target colour palette
  • Dump of 10 best rank 1 individuals, generations 20 and 40
  • Generation 40 training enlargement
  • Solutions filter source code (text file)
    
• More examples from a single run. These show the result of filters on different source images
  
  • Target colour palette
  • Mona Lisa
  • B&W photo 1
  • B&W photo 2
  • Colour photo
  • Filter source code (text file)
    
• Miscellaneous examples from different runs

 Co-evolutionary Methods in Evolutionary Art

Gary R. Greenfield

Three false colored images co-evolved by Greenfield:

• co_a_10 (eps)
• co_a_12 (eps)
• co_b_02 (eps)

 Experiments in Computational Aesthetics

Initial random images

Images created throughout the 11 iteractions:

• "HR" contains high resolution renderings of the images presented in the chapter, namely those that were handpicked and those that are the fittest


• "ALL" contains all the images generated by the evolutionary engine during that specific run