Creative evolutionary systems

The use of evolution for creative problem solving is one of the most exciting and potentially significant areas in computer science today. Evolutionary computation is a way of solving problems, or generating designs, using mechanisms derived from natural evolution. This book concentrates on applying important ideas in evolutionary computation to creative areas, such as art, music, architecture, and design. It shows how human interaction, new representations, and approaches such as open-ended evolution can extend the capabilities of evolutionary computation from optimization of existing solutions to innovation and the generation of entirely new and original solutions.

This book takes a fresh look at creativity, exploring what it is and how the actions of evolution can resemble it. Examples of novel evolved solutions are presented in a variety of creative disciplines. The editors have compiled contributions by leading researchers in each discipline.

If you are a savvy and curious computing professional, a computer-literate artist, musician or designer, or a specialist in evolutionary computation and its applications, you will find this a fascinating survey of the most interesting work being done in the area today.

Features:

• Explores the use of evolutionary computation to generate novel creations including contemporary melodies, photo-realistic faces, jazz music in collaboration with a human composer, architectural designs, working electronic circuits, novel aircraft maneuvers, two- and three-dimensional art, and original proteins.
• Presents resulting designs in black-and-white and color illustrations.
• Includes a twin-format audio/CD-ROM with evolved music and hands-on activities for the reader, including evolved images, animations, and source-code related to the text.
• Describes in full the methods used so that readers with sufficient skill and interest can replicate the work and extend it.
• Is written for a general computer science audience, providing coherent and unified treatment across multiple disciplines.

Contents

• An Introduction to Creative Evolutionary systems
• Part I Evolutionary Creativity
• Creativity in Evolution : Individuals, Interactions, and Environments
• Recognizability of the Idea: the Evolutionary Process of Argenia
• Breading Aesthetic Objects : Art and Artificial Evolutionary
• The Beer Can Theory of Creativity
• Part II Evolutionary Music
• Genjam: Evolution of a Jazz Improviser
• On the Origins and Evolution of Music in Virtual Worlds
• Vox Populi : Evolutionary Computation for Music Evolution
• The Sound Gallery -An Interactive A-Life Artwork
• Part III Creative Evolutionary Design
• Creative Design and the Generative Evolutionary Paradigm
• Genetic Programming : Biologically Inspired Computation That Exhibits Creativity in Producing Human-Competitive Results
• Toward a Symbiotic Coevolutionary Approach to Architecture
• Using Evolutionary Algorithms to Aid Designers of Architectural Structures
• Part IV Evolutionary Art
• Eons of Genetically Evolved Algorithmic Images
• Art, Robots, and Evolution as a Tool for Creativity
• Stepping Stones in the Mist
• Evolutionary Generation of Faces
• The Escher Evolver: Evolution to the People
• Part V Evolutionary Innovation
• The Genetic Algorithm as a Dicovery Engine : Strange Circuits and New Principales
• Discovering Novel Fighter Combat Maneuvers : Simulating Test Pilot Creativity
• Innovative Antenna Design Using Genetic Algorithms
• Evolutionary Techniques in Physical Robotics
• Patenting Evolved Bactericidal Peptides