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radarboy
Longer story telling with generative programming
Feb 12th, 2010, 8:05am  
I have been thinking a lot about narrative lately. How a sketch can evolve over time to become something new. and still artistically and aesthetically pleasing.

i guess this is the holy grail of generative art.

My concern with my work that it is very much one-dimensional. ie. it fits into the sketch paradigm. One sketch does one thing, perhaps with a few variations. And normally if there are evolutions they're slow.

I was wondering if anyone has experience or thoughts along the lines on how to make their work more dynamic, with regards to evolving generative art/systems?

i guess the constraints to apply to what kind of evolution takes places are as important as the evolution. i saw a video the other day where life systems evolved through interations with a certain task - walking faster, etc. will try dig it up again.

anyone have any thinking on this? or experience?
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Re: Longer story telling with generative programming
Reply #1 - Feb 13th, 2010, 2:16am  
One problem is that doing lots of different things requires lots of different code.

How many different things should and "evolving" piece be able to do?

A twisty line that is able to twist itself into different shapes might be interesting for a while, but what if you don't want a line forever and instead want 'solid' 3D objects, or swathes of blended colour, or video, or glittering particles...

And how do you transition between these things?

Have a look on pouet.net or scene.org for a demo crew called ASD (I think that's the one) from Greece. Their demos are simply stunning, and contain a lot of effects where scenes kind of morph into other scenes. I don't know how they do it... amazing.

-spxl
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Re: Longer story telling with generative programming
Reply #2 - Feb 13th, 2010, 5:14am  
thanks for the ASD headsup. lots of interesting stuff there.

here's the evolution video i was talking about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCXzcPNsqGA&feature=related
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Re: Longer story telling with generative programming
Reply #3 - Feb 13th, 2010, 12:54pm  
ASD = Andromeda Software Development

Check this out:

Andromeda Software Development (ASD) - Iconoclast - PC (2005)
YouTube Video

scene.org download

If you think the video is amazing, try the demo itself. It is realtime 3D-rendered software.

Freakin' amazing.

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