Hi
...just noticed this artificial evolution thread...
Artificial intelligence, evolution, crowd behavior etc.are indeed old
research subjects and by now mature commercial techniques, used already
"Massively" in Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-2003), so this TED 2003
speaker Torsten Reil (from Natural Motion) was not the only nor the
first pioneer. He really should have given some credit to his peers and
predecessors.
Actually yours truly gave a retrospective talk about the subject 1999
"Visual simulations, artificial animals and virtual ecosystems"(*) so it
was old news even then. Karl Sims (whom I was in contact with when
writing the talk/paper) did the first Torsten-Reil-type of evolution
animations in the early 90's, and Demetri Terzopoulos published a series
of studies about artificial evolution starting 1994
http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~dt/papers/alifej94/alifej94.pdf.
- notice that we are talking about the times when Real3D was introduced
to the windows platform - not many of us old timers left on the
user-list :-)
Cheers
Jyrki
(*) abstract here - not interesting to this forum though, biology stuff
http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/content/abstract/202/23/3477
