Jonathan McCabe’s artificially evolved systems art
“The patterns are made by repeated foldings, rotations and shifts, and then each point is coloured depending on its positions during the operation. A process of artificial evolution was employed to develop the final images, involving repeated variation, selection and “cross breeding” of the recipes used to generate the images.”
http://sf.anu.edu.au/~jrm900/The_Front/
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This doesn’t make …
This doesn’t make sense. Don’t you need someone to select for fitness? It just seems like you have a program that is generating values for pixels according to some algorithm. All I see is one continuous animation. It’s not a series of images that are mutating and being selected for fitness, thus, the term “evolving” is not suitable.
Interesting but I …
Interesting but I don’t see where a neural network was involved.
something he calls …
something he calls “butterfly origami technique”. Dot’s plotted, planes folded, repeat a billion times. Or something like that.
For the ones asking …
For the ones asking and guessing:
“(…)The input into the process is purely the position in the image, the image is a kind of decoding and re-encoding of that information into the three dimensional space of colour. (…)”
Hmm. My guess: …
Hmm. My guess: This probably has nothing to do with neural nets. Looks like a simple kaleidescope simulation based on some pretty clothing. Funny that someone suggests using this for clothing when that is probably where it came from 
Hi, this is great!
…
Hi, this is great!
dind’t you thought to create this for clothes?
i find it beautiful, arabeske, psichedelic and good balanced about regular and no-regular!
congratulations!
A.
January 31st, 2009 at 5:02 amHi Vestalunch - I …
Hi Vestalunch - I don’t have the answers to your questions, but if you contact the artist I’m sure he can fill you in. See comment above for URL.
i don’t understand …
i don’t understand how i neural net was used for this. What’s the input/output? what do the hidden units do?
this looks like a kaledioscope, did you use a linear transformation or something?
Sweet! ^^(5/5) …
Sweet! ^^(5/5) Did he use recursive functions to generate these images?
generatorx [dot] no …
generatorx [dot] no/20060413/jonathan-mccabe/
ive got this on dvd, there are high res clips on his personal site
January 31st, 2009 at 5:02 am