Animations rendered by braitenberg vehicles

  • Authors:
  • Victor Ciesielski;Perry Barile

  • Affiliations:
  • RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia;RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 13th annual conference companion on Genetic and evolutionary computation
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We describe an approach to generating animated sequences of images drawn using stroke-based rendering. Individual strokes are generated as a history of movements of a class of purely reactive computational agents known as Braitenberg Vehicles embedded on a digital canvas. The entire animation represents an aggregate of all the movements of the agents across an entire run. We provide end users with a software tool to produce such animations and allow users to set the sensory capabilities of agents on a low level basis. The agents perform feature detection based on such capabilities. The end users thus interact with the agents with a variety of input images to discover a range of renderable outcomes. Artists inform us that the animations that result from our output provide an engaging visual experience.