Evolvable fashion-based cellular automata for generating cavern systems

D Ashlock - … on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG), 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cellular automata can be used to rapidly generate complex images. This study introduces
fashion-based cellular automata as a new representation for generating cavern-like level …

Fitness landscapes of evolved apoptotic cellular automata

D Ashlock, S McNicholas - IEEE transactions on evolutionary …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper examines the fitness landscape for evolutionary algorithms evolving cellular
automata (CA) rules to satisfy an apoptotic fitness function. This fitness function requires the …

Evolved art with transparent, overlapping, and geometric shapes

J Berg, NGA Berggren, SA Borgeteien… - … and Development: Third …, 2019 - Springer
In this work, an evolutionary art project is presented where images are approximated by
transparent, overlapping and geometric shapes of different types, eg, polygons, circles …

Using scalable vector graphics to evolve art

ED Heijer, AE Eiben - International Journal of Arts and …, 2016 - inderscienceonline.com
In this paper, we describe our investigations of the use of scalable vector graphics as a
genotype representation in evolutionary art. We describe the technical aspects of using SVG …

Single parent generalization of cellular automata rules

D Ashlock, S McNicholas - 2012 IEEE Congress on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Generalization is a perennial issue in evolutionary computation. The ability of evolution to
find excellent special-purpose solutions to a problem means that, in some cases …

The Readers Project procedural agents and literary vectors

DC Howe, J Cayley - ACM SIGGRAPH 2011 Art Gallery, 2011 - dl.acm.org
The Readers Project is an aesthetically oriented system of software entities designed to
explore the culture of human reading. These entities, or" readers," navigate texts according …

Analysis of information gain and Kolmogorov complexity for structural evaluation of cellular automata configurations

M Ali Javaheri Javid, T Blackwell, R Zimmer… - Connection …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Shannon entropy fails to discriminate structurally different patterns in two-dimensional
images. We have adapted information gain measure and Kolmogorov complexity to …

Automatic generation of diverse cavern maps with morphing cellular automata

M Kreitzer, D Ashlock, R Pereira - 2019 IEEE Conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cellular automata can be used to rapidly generate complex images, but controlling the
character of those images can be difficult. This study continues experimentation with fashion …

Necrotic control of the aesthetics of evolved art

D Ashlock, J Greensmith - 2020 IEEE Congress on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study uses necrosis, a technique from the domain of artificial immune systems, to
control the evolution of apoptotic cellular automata. These automata generate complex …

The riddle of togelby

D Ashlock, C Salge - 2019 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
At the 2017 Artificial and Computational Intelligence in Games meeting at Dagstuhl, Julian
Togelius asked how to make spaces where every way of filling in the details yielded a good …