Interactively Evolved Art
All art below was generated by interactive art evolution programs incorporated into MM-NEAT, a software package that evolves artificial neural networks. Each piece of art presented below was generated by a special type of neural network known as a Compositional Pattern Producing Network (CPPN). Specifically, human subjects used interactive evolution to select the art they enjoyed the most, resulting in the generation of more art in line with their preferences. Although the larger MM-NEAT project still retains the ability to evolve such artifacts, a simplified version of the code that focuses exclusively on interactive evolution with CPPNs is also available at https://github.com/schrum2/CPPNArtEvolution. This code was written by Isabel Tweraser and Lauren Gillespie as part of Southwestern University's SCOPE summer research program.Art Selected By Human Subjects
Selecting the name of one of the art generation programs on the left will provide you with a list of individuals that participated in a human subject study to understand the capabilities of these systems. Users were either exposed to both Picbreeder and AnimationBreeder, or 3DObjectBreeder and 3DAnimationBreeder. Therefore, subject ID numbers for the two 2D art programs correspond to the same person, and subject ID numbers for the two 3D art programs also correspond to the same person (for a total of 40 participants). Therefore, you can compare what one individual generated with one program to what that same individual generated with another program. However, no subject used both 2D and 3D art programs. Users interacted with each program for 15 generations. In each generation, 20 options were available to select from, but only the items that each user actually selected are accessible in the interface below. Images and animations are reduced in size for the sake of space, but the original CPPNs can represent the art depicted here at arbitrarily large resolutions.|
Picbreeder AnimationBreeder 3DObjectBreeder 3DAnimationBreeder |
