Flocks, herds and schools: A distributed behavioral model
SIGGRAPH '87 Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Swarm intelligence: from natural to artificial systems
Swarm intelligence: from natural to artificial systems
Self-Organization in Biological Systems
Self-Organization in Biological Systems
SwarmArt: interactive art from swarm intelligence
Proceedings of the 12th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia
EuroGP'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Applications of Evolutionary Computing
Evolutionary methods for ant colony paintings
EC'05 Proceedings of the 3rd European conference on Applications of Evolutionary Computing
Playing in the pheromone playground: experiences in swarm painting
EC'05 Proceedings of the 3rd European conference on Applications of Evolutionary Computing
Photogrowth: non-photorealistic renderings through ant paintings
Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
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In recent years, we have seen some artificial artistic work that has drawn inspiration from swarm societies, in particular ant societies. Ant paintings are abstract images corresponding to visualizations of the paths made by a group of virtual ants on a bi-dimensional space. The research on ant paintings has been focused around a stigmergic mechanism of interaction: the deposition of pheromones, largely used by ants. In an effort to further on the research on ant inspired artificial art, we introduce the T. albipennis sand painting artists, which draw direct inspiration from the ant species Temnothorax albipennis (formerly tuberointerruptus). These ants build simple circular walls, composed of grains of sand or fragments of stones, at a given distance from the central cluster of adult ants and brood. The brood and ants cluster function as a template, which combined with self-organization are responsible for the particular wall pattern formation. The T. albipennis artists are artificial twodimensional builders, starting from unorganized placement of virtual sand grains, they rearrange them, creating some interesting patterns composed of scattered pointillistic and imperfect circles, a colored moon-like landscape full of craters.