Plastic door

Two foggy pics

Having just moved to Bergen, I find it suitable to post these foggy pics

DarwinTunes

I just found out about a very cool project called DarwinTunes. They let computer generated songs evolve by audience selection, and are already producing some quite nice music. Check out http://darwintunes.org/ I dedicate the following image to DarwinTunes!

Image of the day

Image of the day

Monday image

Image of the day

Pink symmetry is super beautiful

Darwinian Art has figured me out

Weekend image

Image of the Wednesday

Vertical symmetry is a hit. I try not to favor symmetrical images, but I guess its an efficient way for the programs to make images look designed.

Image of the day

Metal chair in a red room

Two sisters and their cousin

Image of the day

Maximalism

Although I have no formal training in the arts, I have been to a few art exhibitions and have also glanced at the cover of several books about the subject. One term I have come across is 'minimalism', and I have often wondered what the opposite would be. As google couldn't provide a definitive answer, I hand the question over to you. Is it 'maximalism'?

Here's a few members of a non-minimalistic family of pictures. As you can probably see, they are related to the nanorobots.

Looking out at a blue world from inside a train with turquoise interior

It seems that the family of programs that make these lovely bubbly images handle mutation and crossover well, since they manage to keep a high level of variation while sticking with the same characteristics.

Two-faced twins

This is one of the images in my ever-growing library that really look designed. It doesn’t strike me as a result of a complex mathematical equation. If I didn’t know better, I would assume someone painted it, and intended to make it to look the way it does. Then I would go on to wonder why someone would do that. In this case, the question is irrelevant. There is no intention behind this picture, since it isn't designed by any sentient being. Much like biological organisms, the pictures I post in this blog are just the slightly mutated descendants of other pictures that have won the competitions they have participated in.

Nanorobots

These could be pictures of parts of tiny insect-like robots.

Dragon heads

Primitive form

At the height of their popularity

Giving way to new shapes

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Person in orange outfit

Apparently my favorite color is pink

If the system works as intended, the genetic programs should strive to produce images that match my taste. So how come pink is a recurring color? I thought I preferred earth tones. I think it has to do with the selection process. I don’t look at each image for very long before I pick my favorite, so images composed of subtle colors are probably more likely to be overlooked.

Same same but different

These two images are obviously closely related. Still they evoke different assosciations. One could be a model of a fish with running paint. The other looks more like a depiction of fear of going to the dentist.

Masks

So these masks appeared and threatened to dominate the gene pool. Symmetry helps them look designed, I guess. The ancestor looks more like a shield than a mask.

This is definitely a mask with horns.

Same without the horns.

Mask on a stand.

Mask evolved into a thingy.