Tag: html5 canvas
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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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Evolving butterflies game released!
The Heliconius Butterfly Wing Pattern Evolver game is finished and ready for it’s debut as part of the Butterfly Evolution Exhibit at the Royal Society Summer Exhibition 2014. Read more about the scientific context on the researcher’s website, and click the image above to play the game. The source code is here, it’s the first…
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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…
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Egg camouflage evolution tests in different nest sites
I’ve spent some time testing Project Nightjar EggLab: clicking on algorithmically generated eggs on backgrounds taken from nightjar nest sites and recording the time it takes for each egg. It’s designed for lots of people to play in parallel, but I wanted to test it before coming up with more gameplay mechanic ideas. The timing…
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Visualising egg pattern genomes
A couple of screenshots from the upcoming Project Nightjar citizen science game – the genetic programming pattern generator is now working in a simple test framework, and even with myself as the only player at the moment, it’s gradually producing eggs that are harder and harder to find against one of the background images from…
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More procedurally rendered eggs in HTML5 canvas
The first Project Nightjar game was a big success, with 6 thousand players in the first few days – so we’ll have lots of visual perception data to get through! Today I’ve been doing a bit more work on the egg generator for the next citizen science camouflage game: I’ve made 24 new, more naturalistic…
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Where is that nightjar?
The first Project Nightjar game is online! It’s a perception test to see how good you are at spotting the camouflaged birds – a great use of the photos the researchers are collecting in the field, and we can also use the data as an experiment by comparing our timing when searching for birds with…
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Aniziz on iPad
Thanks to HTML5 canvas, my first game that works on the iPad. All I had to do was hook up the touch events to call the mouse handlers and it was pretty functional, although the game would be better dealing with touch events differently using more drag-drop approach. The game runs around 20fps compared to…