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"Toward Greater Artistic Control for Interactive Evolution of Images and Animation"

(Best paper award recipient, EvoMusArt 2007, Valencia, Spain)

Abstract. We present several practical improvements to the interactive evolution of 2D images, some of which are also applicable to more general genetic programming problems. We introduce tree alignments to improve the animation of evolved images when using genetic cross dissolves. The goal of these improvements is to strengthen the interactive evolution toolset and give the artist greater control and expressive power.

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Talk slides [pdf, 18 MB]


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Toward Greater Artistic Control for Interactive Evolution of Images and Animation
Siggraph 2006 Sketch

Moving the Jungle in "Madagascar"
Siggraph 2005 sketch

Surfing Zebra, A "Madagascar" Effects Breakdown
Siggraph 2005 sketch

Custom Software Development in Post-Production
Siggraph 2004 Panel

Procedural Shaders: A Feature Animation Perspective
Game Developer's Conference, San Jose, CA March 24 (22-26) 2004

Realistic Eye Rendering, David Hart, Rick Glumac
Siggraph 2003 sketch

Johnson, C.R., Livnat, Y., Zhukov, L., Hart, D., and Kindlmann, G.
Computational Field Visualization
Mathematics Unlimited - 2001 and Beyond. Engquist, B., Royal
Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, and Schmid, W., Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA, USA (Eds.)
Book Chapter, Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-540-66913-5

Gordon Kindlmann, David Weinstein, David Hart
Strategies for Direct Volume Rendering of Diffusion Tensor Fields
IEEE TVCG 2000

David Augustus Hart, "Direct Illumination with Lazy Visibility Evaluation",
Cornell University Master's Thesis, 2000.

David Hart and Philip Dutré and Donald P. Greenberg. Direct Illumination
With Lazy Visibility Evaluation, Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 99, Computer
Graphics Proceedings, Annual Conference Series, pp. 147-154 (August 1999,
Los Angeles, California). Addison Wesley Longman. Edited by Alyn Rockwood.
ISBN 0-20148-560-5.