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Celestial Economic Sphere

Posted on March 17th by Shae Davidson.
The Black Shoals Stock Planetarium uses real-time financial data to create an artificial skyscape. Stars represent listed companies, which flicker each time their stock is traded and move in the artificial universe ...
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“Linguistic Chemistry”

Posted on November 21st by Shae Davidson.
Neil Hennessey's JABBER produces random streams of letters that form clusters based on the likelihood of their creating sounds in English.  These sounds merge into words, and an evolving poem of nonsense--much like ...

Genetically Designing DIVs

Posted on October 27th by Matthew Hockenberry.
Note: This is a rather rough draft of this idea. Comments are welcome. Ah, the genetic algorithm. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this idea the intuition is relatively simple. Have ...
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A Kandid Look at Evoluntionary Art

Posted on July 13th by Matthew Hockenberry.
Kandid is a program for understanding the evolution of graphics. Instead of relying on hand drawn graphics, Kandid grows graphics over time by using genetic algorithms. It simulates the process of ...

Back and forth: Ecce Homology

Posted on May 16th by Matthew Hockenberry.
I happened across this post at information aesethetics that offers a nice juxtaposition of the previous post on using genetic algorithms to generate fonts. Here font becomes the expression of ...
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Font Farm - Breeding Typography

Posted on April 17th by Matthew Hockenberry.
genoTyp is an incredibly interesting experiment in genetic typography by Michael Schmitz. I have a strong interest in the idea of genetic algorithms and the elegance with which genoTyp allows the ...