(NOTE: While this page remains currently out of date, an updated page with repaired links and many many additions is in the process of being generated and is expected to come online during summer 2006)

Visual Aesthetic Evolutionary Design Links

Email additions, corrections, suggestions, etc. to Matthew Lewis.

General Articles, Papers, Books...

• Bentley, Peter. "Aspects of Evolutionary Design by Computers" and Evolutionary Design by Computers
• Davidson, Aaron. "Evolution of Art by Aesthetic Selection"
• "Evol-artists - a new breed entirely"
• Gatarski, Richard and Michael Pontecorvo "Breed Better Designs: the generative approach"
• Kelly, Kevin. "Out of Control"
• Lewis, Matthew. "Metavolve" and "Aesthetic Evolutionary Design with Data Flow Networks"
• Lund, Andreas. "Evolving the Shape of Things to Come: A Comparison of Interactive Evolution and Direct Manipulation for Creative Tasks"
• Moss, Linda. "Evolutionary Computer Graphics"
• Rooke, Steven. "Evolutionary Art Glossary"
• Saunders, Rob and John S. Gero. "The Digital Clockwork Muse: a Computational Model of Aesthetic Evolution"
• Schnier, Thorsten. "Evolutionary Design"
• Tabuada, Paulo, Pedro Alves, and Jorge Gomes. "3D Artificial Art by Genetic Algorithms"
• Takagi, Hideyuki "Papers on Interactive Evolutionary Computation"
• Whitelaw, Mitchell. "Breeding Aesthetic Objects: Art and Artificial Evolution" and "Metacreative Engines: Artificial Life and the Edge of Art"

Richard Dawkins

• "World of Dawkins"
• Fusebox. "Biomorph program"
• Smith, Joshua. "Designing Biomorphs with an Interactive Genetic Algorithm"
• Another biomorph applet
• And another...

Karl Sims

• Biota retrospective
• Galápagos
• Genetic Images
• Home page
• Ray, Tom. "Aesthetic Selection"
• Sims, Karl. "Artificial Evolution for Computer Graphics"

Expression-based Images

• Ashmore, Laurence. Cartesian Genetic Programming
• Cambrian Art
• Davis, Harley. "Imogenes"
• Greenfield, Gary. Algorithmic Art"
• Kleiweg, Peter. "Genetic Art"
• Machado, Penousal. "Evolutionary Art Gallery"
• Mindcube Software. "GeneticFX"
• Mount, John. "geneticArt III"
• Musgrave, Ken. "Genetic Programming, Genetic Art"
• "Qbist"
• Rooke, Steven. "Genetic Art"
• Ross, Brian. Generating 2D textures and 3D textures
• Rowley, Tim. "Toolkit for Visual Genetic Programming"
• Unemi, Tatsuo. "SBART"

RenderMan Shaders

• Ibrahim, Aladin. "Genshade" and "SIGGRAPH sketch"
• Lewis, Matthew. "Evolving Images with a Layered Parametric Procedural Shader"

Fractal-based Images

• Rowley, Henry. "Interactive mutation of IFS fractals"
• Ventrella, Jeffrey. "Tweaks"
• Yoshiaki, Ishihama. "Interactive Evolution of Genetic Fractals"

Filter-based Images

• Kai's Power Tools Texture Explorer
• QBeo
• Poli, Riccardo and Stefano Cagnoni. "Evolution of Pseudo-colouring Algorithms for Image Enhancement with Interactive Genetic Programming"
• Ransen, Owen. "Repligator"
• Ventrella, Jeffrey. "Evolutionary art"

Faces

• Baker, Ellie and Margo Seltzer. "Evolving Line Drawings" in Graphics Interface '94 Proceedings (and papers)
• "FacePrints"
• Frowd, Charlie. "Rating Faces"
• Lewis, Matthew. "Cartoon Face Evolution"
• Pagliarini, L. and D. Parisi. "The FACE-IT project"
• Rowland, Duncan. "Computer Graphic Control over Human Face and Head Appearance, Genetic Optimisation of Perceptual Characteristics"

Misc Image, Color, and 2D Shape Evolution

• Butterfield, Ian and Matthew Lewis. "Font Evolution"
• Chupa, Anna and Michael Chupa. "Generative Texture Maps for Animation"
• Dudek, Gregory. "Genetic Art" (mac-based drawing program)
• Eckert, Kelly, and Stacey. "Interactive Generative Systems for Conceptual Design: An Empirical Perspective"
• Emergent Design."Bottle Generator"
• Gatarski, Richard. "Evolutionary Banners: An Experiment with Automated Advertising Design"
• Geyer-Schulz, Andreas. Tangram evolver
• Graf, Jeanine and Wolfgang Banzhaf. "Interactive Evolution Papers"
• Ito, Eiji and Shun Ishizaki. Creative design support system using evolutionary computation (the "Creative Flower" system)
• Lund, Henrik Hautop. "The Artificial Painter"
• "Mondriaan Art by Evolution"
• Monmarché, Nocent, Slimane, Venturini, and Santini. "Imagine" (evolving HTML style sheets)
• Niss, Christian and Andreas Müller. "Evolution of Color and Shape"
• Ransen, Owen. "Gliftic"
• Singleton, Andy. "Doodle Garden"
• Wiley, Keith. "Pattern Evolver"

William Latham and Stephen Todd

• Computer Artworks, Ltd.
• CSPACE by Jim McClellen
• Evolva Review
• Genetic Art from the Virtual World
• Related implementations:
  • "Cybertation"
  • "GroBoto"
  • Lintermann, Bernd. "Morphogenesis"
  • Rowbottom, Andrew. "Form"

Misc 3D Shape, Form, Geometry Evolution

• Bedwell, Ted. "Artificial Evolution of Implicit Surfaces : An Application of Genetic Programming"
• Emergent Design
• Gauthier, Jean-Marc "Evolutionary Design of a Virtual Garden"
• Graham, Ian J. "EFD page" ( report, and paper)
• Haefner, Ulrich. "Virtual Reality and Genetic Algorithms"
• Holenstein, Markus. "Selection3D"
• Kasprzyk, Alex. "Concha" (shell evolution)
• Lewis, Matthew. "Evolution of Game Environments and "Evolving Human Figure Geometry"
• McCormack, Jon. "Turbulence"
• Nishino, Hiroaki, H. Takagi, and K. Utsumiya. "A Digital Prototyping System for Designing Novel 3D Geometries"
• Lapré, Laurens. "Lparser"
• Parmee, Ian
  • "Interactive Evolutionary Design Systems (IEDS)"
  • "Design Space Modification for Conceptual Interactive Evolutionary Design"
  • Plymouth Engineering Design Centre
  • Advanced Computational Technologies
• Rowland, Duncan. "VRML Sculpture Park"
• Traxler, C. and M. Gervautz. "Using genetic algorithms to improve the visual quality of fractal plants generated with CSG-PL-Systems."
• Venkatasubramanian, Venkat, Anantha Sundaram, King Chan, and James M. Caruthers. Computer-Aided Molecular Design Using Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms

Architecture

• "Artifice" (Interactive, Shockwave)
• Blostein, Beth and Terry Monnett. "Tectonic Evolution" (SIGGRAPH '95 Electronic Theater animation)
• Broughton, T., P. Coates, and H. Jackson "Exploring 3D design worlds using Lindenmayer systems and Genetic Programming"
• Coates, Paul and CECA at UEL School of Architecture
• EDG group at MIT
• Frazer, John. An Evolutionary Architecture. London : Architectural Association Publications, 1995. (also see: report by Rob Saunders, and The Dynamic Evolution of Designs
• Gero, John:
  • Gero, J. S. and Kazakov, V. "Adapting evolutionary computing for exploration in creative designing" (1999)
  • Schnier, T. and Gero, J. S. "From Frank Lloyd Wright to Mondrian: Transforming evolving representations" (1998)
  • Other publications
• Jackson, Helen:
  • coevolution
  • A Symbiotic Coevolutionary Approach to Architecture
  • An Evolutionary Approach to Architecture
• O'Reilly, Una-May. "Research Projects"
• Rosenman, Michael:
  • "An exploration into evolutionary models for non-routine design"
  • "The generation of form using an evolutionary approach"
• Soddu, Celestino and Enrica Colabella:
  • Artificial intelligence and Architectural Design
  • The design of morphogenesis.
  • Environmental Genetic Design

Animation

• Lim, Ik Soo and Daniel Thalmann, "Pro-actively Interactive Evolution for Computer Animation" Eurographics '99
• Ventrella, Jeffrey. Disney Meets Darwin: evolution of funny animated figures" Computer Animation '95

People

• Peter Bentley
• Richard Dawkins
• Richard Gatarski
• Gary Greenfield
• Aladin Ibrahim
• William Latham
• Matthew Lewis
• Ik Soo Lim
• Linda Moss
• Flip Phillips
• Michael Pontecorvo
• Steven Rooke
• Andrew Rowbottom
• Karl Sims
• Celestino Soddu and Enrica Colabella
• Hideyuki Takagi
• Tatsuo Unemi
• Jeffrey Ventrella
• Mitchell Whitelaw

Conferences/Workshops/Competitions

• Generative Art 2001
• Second Iteration : emergence, 2nd international conference on generative systems in the electronic arts
• Life 3.0
• Generative Art 2000
• D:IG, International Symposium on Interactive & Generative Design
• Playstation meets Organism: Emulation in a Cultural Context: MEDIA-4 1-3 September 2000, Amsterdam
• Adaptive Computing in Design and Manufacture '00
• Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference '00
• Creative Evolutionary Systems '99
• Generative Art '99
• Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference '99
• Life 2.0
• Artificial Intelligence in Design '98
• Computational Models of Creative Design (HI'98)
• Generative Art '98

Lists

• AI in Design
• GA Archive
• The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to Evolutionary Computation and ENCORE
• Moss, Linda. "Evolutionary Computer Graphics"
• Reynolds, Craig."Evolutionary Computation and its application to art and design"
• Rowbottom, Andrew. "Evolutionary Art" and "software page"
• SBART References

Related

• Capobianco, Fabrizio. "FORMAFLUENS: a tool for describing evolving forms" (shape parameterization)
• Chase, Scott C. "Emergence, Creativity and Computational Tractability in Shape Grammars"
• Klinger, Allen and Nikos A. Salingaros. "Complexity and Visual Images" ("measuring design complexity")
• Leyton, Michael. "Free-Form Grammar" (shape grammer)
• Louis, Sushil J. "Interactive Genetic Algorithms for the Traveling Salesman Problem"
• Nadin, Mihai. "The Bearable Impertinence of Rationality" (computational design)
• Staudek, Tomas. "On Birkhoff's Aesthetic Measure of Vases"

Matthew Lewis
http://accad.osu.edu/~mlewis/
mlewis@accad.ohio-state.edu
ACCAD, The Ohio State University

Matthew Lewis, 2000

(The most recent version of this document can be found at http://accad.osu.edu/~mlewis/aed.html.)