Aesthetic selection and the stochastic basis of art, design and interactive evolutionary computation

  • Authors:
  • Alan Dorin

  • Affiliations:
  • Monash University, Clayton, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

We present data demonstrating that the application of interactive evolution and related techniques has been growing since the early 1990s. Much research has honed the technique for specific applications. In this paper, we explicitly consider the interaction between chance and human creative tendencies as exercised by manual selection during interactive evolutionary computation. Since stochastic processes have interacted with dynamical human and technological processes for creative design throughout the history of art, we survey a few pertinent examples as we tackle interactive evolutionary computing specifically. In this context, chance governs the crossover and mutation of genes and therefore ultimately decides which forms will be displayed to a user for consideration. We derive some simple suggestions as to how chance's role may be extended in interactive evolution, demonstrate these in practice, and discuss how such randomness benefits human creativity.