“Dreams in High Fidelity” by Draves
Conference:
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Interest Area:
- Art Gallery: Presentations
Title:
- Dreams in High Fidelity
Session/Category Title: The Art of Simulation, Evolution, and Distributed Systems
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Abstract:
Dreams in High Fidelity is a painting that evolves. It was designed and rendered with the Electric Sheep screen-saver, a cyborg mind composed of 30,000 computers and people mediated by a genetic algorithm. Physically it consists of a small computer driving a large liquid crystal display. The image is abstract, slowly morphing, and non-repeating.
References:
1. Anderson, D., et al. 2002. Seti@home: An experiment in public-resource computing. Communications of the ACM 45, 56–61.
2. Draves, S. 2005. The electric sheep screen-saver: A case study in aesthetic evolution. In Applications of Evolutionary Computing, LNCS 3449, Springer Verlag.
3. Sims, K. 1991. Artificial evolution for computer graphics. In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH, ACM.
4. Townsend, M., 2004. Apophysis. http://apophysis.org.