RMIT Evolutionary Art
IMAGENE: Evolved Abstract Images
These images have been created using our genetic programming system.
Each image is rendered from a mathematical formula and the formulas
are evolved based on users' preferences.
Evolved Photo-Mosaics and Animations
Photomosaics are images composed of smaller images called tiles.
Viewed close up the details of the tiles are evident and the big
picture is lost. Viewed from a distance the detail of the tiles is
lost and the big picture is evident. We generate photomosaics by
evolutionary search and create animations by using the best
individual in a generation as frames of a movie. The animations can
generate engaging visual effects such as gradually `materialising' a
face from a random arrangement of tiles on a screen.
Here are some examples.
Our work
Constantly Becoming Other has been shown at the
ArtEscapes exhibition of evolved art in Valencia, Spain,
April-May, 2007. Here are some snapshots from the exhibition.
The Photomosaic Animation Booth
It's like a passport photo booth, but you get an
animated photomosaic.
The RMIT evolved art group
Current contributors to this work are
- Vic Ciesielski, School of CS&IT
- Marsha Berry, School of Creative Media
- Karen Trist, School of Creative Media
- Andy Song, School of CS&IT
- Daryl D'Souza, School of CS&IT
- Qinying Xu, School of CS&IT
- Margaret Hamilton, School of CS&IT
- John Mackinnon, School of Creative Media
Students contributors to this work are:
- Xiang Li, Programming of the first version of IMAGENE
- Austin Wood, Programming of genetic search for mosaics
- Irwan Hendra, Enhancements to IMAGENE and photomosaics
- Michael Cassidy, Programming of the Photomosaic Animation Booth
- Katherine Chau, Generation of image families and dynamic
renderings with IMAGENE
- Qinying Xu. Symmetric image rendering for IMAGENE
Others who have contributed to this work are
Naomi Herzog, School of Creative Media,
Gayan Wijesinghe, School of CS&IT
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