Constrained evolutionary art: interactive flag design

  • Authors:
  • P. A. Whigham;C. Aldridge;M. De Lange

  • Affiliations:
  • Information Science Department, University of Otago, Dunedin;Information Science Department, University of Otago, Dunedin;Information Science Department, University of Otago, Dunedin

  • Venue:
  • CEC'09 Proceedings of the Eleventh conference on Congress on Evolutionary Computation
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The field of evolutionary art is generally concerned with evolving patterns that have little constraint. This paper describes an evolutionary art system that is constrained to form flag designs, following a set of common design patterns. The resulting genotype representation, genetic operators and forms of user interaction are chosen to allow an exploration of "flag space", as well as allowing the user to rapidly focus on aspects of specific designs. The utility of the approach is demonstrated by evolving flag designs using image similarity and by user-directed evolution.