The electric sheep

  • Authors:
  • Scott Draves

  • Affiliations:
  • Spotworks, San Francisco

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGEVOlution
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Electric Sheep is a distributed screen-saver that harnesses idle computers into a render farm with the purpose of animating and evolving artificial life-forms known as sheep. The votes of the users form the basis for the fitness function for a genetic algorithm on a space of abstract animations. Users also may design sheep by hand for inclusion in the gene pool.