{"id":1069,"date":"2011-03-25T02:15:38","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T01:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lumen.nu\/rekveld\/wp\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2019-08-24T16:44:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T15:44:22","slug":"work-evolving-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/?p=1069","title":{"rendered":"work evolving work"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since about two years<\/a> I’ve been working on evolving networks of some kind, some things<\/a> have happened along the way, I’ve pretty much completely changed tools (from jitter<\/a> to python<\/a>\/cython<\/a> on Linux<\/a>), and I am basically still doing mostly exploratory research. Still eons away from definite forms or a clearly defined purpose even, enjoying to be continually surprised by how evolution can find imaginative pathways around my expectations. In one line: I’m trying to formalize parts of how I used to compose my films<\/a>, and I’m evolving feedback networks that generate image sequences that in some way fit those rules. And I am mostly curious about what fits those rules while being completely different from what I could imagine. In the end I suppose that I am looking for what Stephen Jay Gould and Richard C. Lewontin talked about with their metaphor of “The Spandrels of San Marco<\/a>“; the generation of novelty as a side-effect that can fulfill some new function.<\/p>\n

Below snapshots from the evolution of a ‘weaver’ for a Boolean Network<\/a> that evolves to maximize some kind of optical flow.<\/p>\n

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\n200 generations
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Since about two years I’ve been working on evolving networks of some kind, some things have happened along the way, I’ve pretty much completely changed tools (from jitter to python\/cython on Linux), and I am basically still doing mostly exploratory research. Still eons away from definite forms or a clearly defined purpose even, enjoying to … Continue reading work evolving work<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1072,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2457,"href":"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions\/2457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joostrekveld.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}