Category: genetic programming
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Midimutant in MagPi Magazine
Here’s an article on midimutant we did with Aphex Twin for MagPi Magazine, written by Sean McManus. Most of the work on this project recently has revolved around exploring custom hardware using old FM synth chips from games consoles, but with any luck there should be some more evolved DX7 sounds around here soon.
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Adventures with FM sound and the YM2612
So I’ve been getting a into FM synthesis lately, and after giving the TX7 a spin I’ve been really wanting to try evolving sounds for the later synth chips Yamaha made for games consoles and soundcards. At that point in history FM was one of the only realistic ways you could synthesise complex sound as…
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Artificially evolved camouflage
As the egglab camouflage experiment continues, here are some recent examples after 40 or so generations. If you want to take part in a newer experiment, we are currently seeing if a similar approach can evolving motion dazzle camouflage in Dazzle Bug. Each population of eggs is being evolved against a lot of background images,…
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Dazzlebug released!
Can we evolve patterns that confuse movement like we did for still eggs in egglab? Dazzlebug is finally released today, so we’ll see if collective citizen science player action results in successful patterns that get passed on to the bug’s offspring. More on the pattern generation here.
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AI as puppetry, and rediscovering a long forgotten game.
AI in games is a hot topic at the moment, but most examples of this are attempts to create human-like behaviour in characters – a kind of advanced puppetry. These characters are also generally designed beforehand rather than reacting and learning from player behaviour, let alone being allowed to adapt in an open ended manner.…
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New camouflage pattern engine
One of the new projects we have at foam kernow is a ambitious new extension of the egglab player driven camouflage evolution game with Laura Kelley and Anna Hughes at Cambridge Uni. As part of this we are expanding the patterns possible with the HTML5 canvas based pattern synthesiser to include geometric designs. Anna and…
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Robot nightjar eggshibition at the Poly, Falmouth
As part of this year’s Fascinate festival we took over the bar at Falmouth’s Poly with visualisations of the camouflage pattern evolution process from the egglab game. This was a chance to do some detective work on the massive amount of genetic programming data we’ve amassed over the last few months, figure out ways to…
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News from egglab
9,000 players, 20,000 games played and 400,000 tested egg patterns later we have over 30 generations complete on most of our artificial egg populations. The overall average egg difficulty has risen from about 0.4 seconds at the start to 2.5 seconds. Thank you to everyone who contributed their time to playing the game! We spawned…
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Egglab – meet Ms Easter Robot Nightjar and her genetically programmed eggs!
We’ve released our latest citizen science camouflage game Egglab! I’ve been reporting on this for a while here so it’s great to have it released in time for Easter – we’ve had coverage in the Economist, which is helping us recruit egg hunters and 165,000 eggs have been tested so far over the last 3…
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Egglab – pattern generation obsession
I’m putting the final pieces together for the release of the all new Project Nightjar game (due in the run up to Easter, of course!) and the automatic pattern generation has been a focus right up to this stage. The challenge I like most about citizen science is that along with all the ‘normal’ game…