What is Digg?53 Comments
- kevinwiatrowski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13It doesn't stick two images together--it's not like superimposing two graphics. It combines the mathematical expressions used to create two images, forming a completely new expression. In other words, mom-equation and dad-equation screw their mathematical DNA together to make a baby-equation.
- redalert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Looking forward to the wallpapers that this will create
- rodrigo74, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11No point on mirroring sites with server-side code.
- intent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Isn't this Electric Sheep's idea, except ES is a screen saver and much cooler?
http://www.electricsheep.org/ - Outdoor83, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6It breaks some times and seems like it's not working all that well, but digg for a cool idea. Hopefully we can improve on this.
- kevinwiatrowski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4If you like mathematical art, this guy makes cool 3D mathematical sculptures:
http://www.bathsheba.com/math/ - jleedev, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Source code: http://artdent.homelinux.net/~josh/evolve.zip
I'm at school now, so I can't fix it. Maybe my brother will. - zaren, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Well, for the "site is dying" crowd, note that this site is running on a dynamic dns account, so it's probably sitting in someone's basement at home. Here's hoping he still has a house to come home to at the end of the day :)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Looks like the site is dead already (at least I can't get at it).
Blasted diggers. Why can't you all just digg the story without actually looking at it, just like we all do with anything anti-sony or pro-mac :) - bariswheel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2any mirrors? the site appears to be down.
- aliekens, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Bathsheba is not a guy ...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Haven't found any that I thought deserved a vote-up. Interesting idea though, they need to work on the algorithm to make more interesting pictures.
- WillyMF1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2A mirror would kind of kill the point dont you think?
- tecknoplasma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You're at school on a holiday? Isn't that illegal or something?
+dugg, very cool program. - tzigane, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://www.genarts.com/karl/genetic-images.html
- superdink, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Check out the Complexification Gallery of Computation at: http://www.complexification.net/gallery/
- daniel2e, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Actually, that does not betray a lack of understanding of how GAs function. Many evolutionary art GAs have taken that exact method, usually with poor results.
- masprema, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wow. Thanks for the link to Bathsheba. That is very exciting visible math.
- triforcer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1too bad this thing doesn't understand asymmetry with its shapes.
- riverfr0zen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Cool stuff. If you didn't know, William Latham was doing stuff like this in the 80s. His work involves using a 'genetic' paradigm to create 3-dimensional shapes on a computer. The role of the artist becomes as 'selector', rather than 'creator'. The resulting 3-d shapes actually look pleasing to the eye, and are also very alien-esque. Hard to google good stuff on him, it seems, but here's one link:
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/organic-art/
This stuff here, though introduces the collaborative aspect into the mix, which is very sweet. - lludacrisboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Very cool. id like to know the history. why it happened. where the crew went. so cool
- andrethegiant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"About this server
Hah. It's a Pentium II 233 MHz with 320 MiB of RAM. It lives in my basement."
how could this survive the digg effect? - daniel2e, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I hope that the authors know to take multiple votes before evaluating an organism. GAs perform little better than random search if fitness is either a 1 or a 0 (in this case, smiley or frowney), since it is impossible for the algorithm to gain traction on the fitness landscape.
- uvapip, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1To match the whole survival of the fittest idea of evolution, it might have made more sense for the system to offer a choice between two of its randomly generated images of that generation. That way, it could avoid the problem of people liking or disliking every image.
- Scynet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Doesn't work too well in this case, you can make one vote and then you're back with the dugg-problem.
- gwjc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I broke it after a few no votes.. neat to see someone using django anyway.
- SourWorm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The site works for me. I see a large white page that is apparently just waiting to be populated by its first seed. .... yup still waiting.
- ZackS, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5And your comment, Matt, is based on a flawed assumption of how to socially interact with other people. Your opinion may be valid but it was immediately discarded because of your unhelpful, ***** comment. Oh my, all that from one sentence?! This civilized communicating with other people thing is tough, isn't it!
Anyway, the comment you were replying to didn't claim any specifics of genetics so I don't see how you get off telling them that they're wrong when all they said is that the derivative images will be like children in that they will posess elements from each parent rather than every element from both parents. That most certainly IS correct. - aplusplus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This server appears to be dead or dying. Any working mirrors?
- farmerwal, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1hmm, seems that all the digg traffic has caused mass extinction. Anybody else having trouble viewing the page?
- MattL920, on 10/12/2007, -6/+6Your comment is based upon a flawed assumption of how genetic algorithms work
- tanith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I both thank and curse you for this link. I'm addicted.
- arthurdenture, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Maybe your brother will, indeed. :-)
It turns out that Django does not play nicely with the apache worker MPM. Now that I've switched apache to the prefork MPM, the site loads slowly and has a relatively small cap on the number of simultaneous connections (any higher and the extra apaches would be in swap), but the strange mysql errors should be gone. - olegk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1this is hardly art
- kuratkull, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Posted on the site :)" Digg is currently tearing up the server! OMG!"nEDIT:LOL, seems like he has taken the server offline :P
- twe4ked, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1whoops... dident think of that.. my bad.
- Orbatos, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1cool, even though it's not a new idea, decent work
- MattL920, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Rating it 1-10 might work even better.
- Yegger, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1those were totally gay
- SnOwie, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1I once saw a robot that made action painting, but in this CGart it is harder to get a nice effect. Nothing in CGart is done by accident.
- bobbles, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0nvm silly me
- twe4ked, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3http://www.duggmirror.com/design/Evolutionary_art_(vote_for_the_good_pictures)/
- MindFlayer, on 10/12/2007, -9/+4This project is based upon a flawed assumption that you can take stick together two good images and make a better one. Subtleties in one or both images would be lost, and the results end up being a jumbled mess.
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