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Can’t See the Forest: Using an Evolutionary Algorithm to Produce an Animated Artwork

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Arts and Technology (ArtsIT 2009)

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We describe an artist’s journey of working with an evolutionary algorithm to create an artwork suitable for exhibition in a gallery. Software based on the evolutionary algorithm produces animations which engage the viewer with a target image slowly emerging from a random collection of greyscale lines. The artwork consists of a grid of movies of eucalyptus tree targets. Each movie resolves with different aesthetic qualities, tempo and energy. The artist exercises creative control by choice of target and values for evolutionary and drawing parameters.

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  1. RMIT University, GPO Box 2476V, Melbourne, Vic, Australia

    Karen Trist, Vic Ciesielski & Perry Barile

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  1. Institute of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Ilan University, 26047, Yilan, Taiwan, R.O.C.

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  2. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Dong Hwa University, No. 1, Sec.2, Da Hsueh Rd. Shoufeng, 97401, Hualien, Taiwan, R.O.C.

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Trist, K., Ciesielski, V., Barile, P. (2010). Can’t See the Forest: Using an Evolutionary Algorithm to Produce an Animated Artwork. In: Huang, F., Wang, RC. (eds) Arts and Technology. ArtsIT 2009. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 30. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11577-6_32

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