The Electric Sheep Screen-Saver: A Case Study in Aesthetic Evolution (paper)


	The Electric Sheep Screen-Saver: A Case Study in Aesthetic Evolution (paper)

Djiezes

6-11-2008 1:29 PM

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pdf, paper, sheep, electric sheep, screensaver, free, evolution, art

Djiezes says:

Thanks to Kore7's comment on invictus' clip, I discovered there's a working linux version now.

2 minutes later, I found this paper on the Electric Sheep Project and simply had to share it.

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8-3-2008 10:39 AM

Kore7

Always glad to spread the sheep.

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<H1>The Electric Sheep Screen-Saver:
A Case Study in Aesthetic Evolution</H1>
<H3>Scott Draves</H3>
<H3>Spotworks, San Francisco CA, USA</H3>
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Electric Sheep is a distributed screen-saver that harnesses idle
computers into a render farm with the purpose of animating and
evolving artificial life-forms known as <EM>sheep</EM>.  The votes of
the users form the basis for the fitness function for a genetic
algorithm on a space of fractal animations.  Users also may design
sheep by hand for inclusion in the gene pool.  This paper describes
the system and its algorithms, and reports statistics from 11 weeks of
operation.  The data indicate that Electric Sheep functions more as an
amplifier of its human collaborators' creativity rather than as a
traditional genetic algorithm that optimizes a fitness function.
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<A href="http://draves.org/evomusart05/evomusart05draves.pdf">Full paper as PDF</A> <A href="http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,3-40109-22-45375612-0,00.html">(c) Springer-Verlag</A>
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