Evolutionary Art

"Evolutionary Art exploits the process of evolution to create an artwork which continually changes according to an evolutionary algorithm."
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All fractal images are designed with Pyres genetic algorithm and rendered with flam3, unless differently specified.
Pyres0.3a is created by Giovanni Caria, Flam3 is created by Scott Draves.
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Friday, December 01, 2006

The Electric Sheep Screen Saver

Electric Sheep is a free, open source screen saver run by thousands of people all over the world. It can be installed on any ordinary PC or Mac. When these computers "sleep", the screen saver comes on and the computers communicate with each other by the internet to share the work of creating morphing abstract animations known as "sheep". The result is a collective "android dream", an homage to Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.

Anyone watching one of these computers may vote for their favorite animations using the keyboard. The more popular sheep live longer and reproduce according to a genetic algorithm with mutation and cross-over. Hence the flock evolves to please its global audience. You can also design your own sheep and submit them to the gene pool.

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