Evolutionary Collaborative Art

topic posted Fri, November 24, 2006 - 8:23 AM by  Paddy
"www.dreamzone.com"

Dreamzone is an online project I'm working on where users collaborate to evolve an image closer and closer to an objective. One person submits the objective and the initial sketch. For example, the objective could be 'A man crying'. People can submit edits to the drawing, restricted to changes of up to 15% of the image. People can also vote on each others submissions (but not their own) - they vote on the extent to which the modifications achieve the objective of the image. The winner of each round then goes forward to be the template for the next generation. And so it goes on and the image evolves closer and closer to the objective.

I've had some quite interesting results with very low number of hits at the moment. In theory, it should be possible to evolve a decent image even if there are no great artists involved. A lot of the power is in the selective pressures of the voting rather than in the drawings themselves.

I'd love to encourage more people to come to the site and maybe even provide some feedback. As you'll see, the site really is beta and is in constant development....
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Paddy
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