[alife] New Website for Interactively Evolving Objects and 3D printing them : EndlessForms.com

Jeff Clune jeffclune at cornell.edu
Mon Aug 1 09:30:40 PDT 2011


I am happy to announce a website where you can interactively evolve
objects and 3D print them (e.g. in silver, steel, or bronze):

http://EndlessForms.com <http://EndlessForms.com/>

A key driver of the complexity of the evolved shapes is that they are
evolved with a generative encoding inspired by developmental biology,
specifically Compositional Pattern Producing Networks (the encoding
for HyperNEAT).

The details are described in Clune & Lipson 2011, http://goo.gl/HRXLD

Video tour: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZu83G8F2Ro

The scientific purpose of the site is to explore what complex designs
can be produced when evolution is powered by a generative encoding
based on developmental biology. The practical purpose of the site is
to allow people to create unique physical objects easily and see the
power of evolution in action.

Please try the site out and publish the interesting objects that you
discover. Please also help generate traffic to the site by sharing it
with your friends, posting it to Facebook, etc. The more people that
use it, the more complex the objects will get.

Best regards,
Jeff Clune

Postdoctoral Fellow
Hod Lipson's Creative Machines Lab
Cornell University
jeffclune at cornell.edu
jeffclune.com <http://jeffclune.com>





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