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Consensual Paintings

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Applications of Evolutionary Computing (EvoWorkshops 2006)

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Abstract

Decentralized coordination can be achieved by the emergence of a consensual choice inside a group of simple agents. Work done on emergence of social laws, and on emergence of a shared lexicon, are known examples of possible benefits of consensus formation in multi-agent systems. We think that in the artificial artistic realm, the agreement on some individual choices (attributes, behaviour, etc) can be important for the emergence of interesting patterns. We describe here an effective decentralized mechanism of consensus formation and how we can achieve a random evolution of decentralized consensual choices. Our goal is designing swarm art, exploring the landscape of forms. Non coordinated social behaviour can be unfruitful for the goal of collective artistic creation. On the other hand, full agreement along time generally leads towards too much homogeneity in a collective pattern. This way, the random succession of collective agreements can lead to the emergence of random patterns, somewhere between order and chaos. We show several application of this transition between consensual choices in a group of micro-painters that create random artistic patterns.

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  1. Faculdade de Ciências de Lisboa,  

    Paulo Urbano

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  1. Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

    Franz Rothlauf

  2. Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, 76128, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Jürgen Branke

  3. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università di Parma,  

    Stefano Cagnoni

  4. Centre of Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra,  

    Ernesto Costa

  5. Dept. LCC, Universidad de Málaga, Spain

    Carlos Cotta

  6. Institute of Computer Science, University of Bremen, 28359, Bremen, Germany

    Rolf Drechsler

  7. INRIA Saclay - Ile-de-France, Parc Orsay Université, 4, rue Jacques Monod, 91893, ORSAY Cedex, France

    Evelyne Lutton

  8. CISUC, Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra, Polo II of the University of Coimbra, 3030, Coimbra, Portugal

    Penousal Machado

  9. Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH, USA

    Jason H. Moore

  10. Universidade de A Coruña, CP 15071, A Coruña, Spain

    Juan Romero

  11. School of Computing Sciences, UEA Norwich, University of East Anglia, NR4 7TJ, Norwich, UK

    George D. Smith

  12. Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

    Giovanni Squillero

  13. Kyushu University, Japan

    Hideyuki Takagi

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Urbano, P. (2006). Consensual Paintings. In: Rothlauf, F., et al. Applications of Evolutionary Computing. EvoWorkshops 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3907. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11732242_59

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