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i was heralding a massive forage into evolutionary art. but, though there might be some ideas deserving attention there, i couldn't find them yet. nevertheless i learned how they have developed some artistic photoshop filters and with what kinds of mathematical expressions they created all those ugly evo-paintings. i'll try some of them together with design games. there's this book, which is somehow interesting:

The Art of Artificial Evolution: A Handbook on Evolutionary Art and Music
by Juan Romero and Penousal Machado (Editors), 2007

includes a few nice articles worth reading.

and this article, which summarizes useful technical details:

Toward Greater Artistic Control for Interactive Evolution of Images and Animation
david a. hart, 2009

when it comes to the basic mechanism/technique, we still seem to stay roughly at the point where karl sims initiated this line of entertainment (so go first to sims himself). it's like, these artists found a new type of painting technique (like oil painting) and will be using it without questioning, just with minor improvements for a few centuries. but sims himself doesn't do that. a different mindset.

(now, let's get back to work)