Scott Draves
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.
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Digital Library
- Draves, S. 2005. The electric sheep screen-saver: A case study in aesthetic evolution. In Applications of Evolutionary Computing, LNCS 3449, Springer Verlag. Google ScholarDigital Library
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Index Terms
- Dreams in High Fidelity
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