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Playing in the Pheromone Playground: Experiences in Swarm Painting

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Applications of Evolutionary Computing (EvoWorkshops 2005)

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This paper is about collective artistic work inspired by natural phenomena, namely the use of pheromone substances for mass recruitment in ants. We will describe two different uncoordinated groups of very simple virtual micro- painters: the Colombines and the Anti-Colombines. These painters have very limited perception abilities and cannot communicate directly with other individuals. The virtual canvas, besides being a computational space for depositing paint, is also a pheromone medium (that mirrors the painting patterns) influencing the painters’ behaviour. Patterns are the emergent result of interaction dynamics involving the micro-painters and their pheromone medium.

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  1. Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande, 1749-016, Lisboa, Portugal

    Paulo Urbano

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  1. Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

    Franz Rothlauf

  2. Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, 76128, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Jürgen Branke

  3. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università di Parma,  

    Stefano Cagnoni

  4. School of Mathematical and Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, EH14 8AS, Edinburgh, UK

    David Wolfe Corne

  5. Institute of Computer Science, University of Bremen, 28359, Bremen, Germany

    Rolf Drechsler

  6. Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH, Offenbach/Main, Germany

    Yaochu Jin

  7. CISUC, Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra, Polo II of the University of Coimbra, 3030, Coimbra, Portugal

    Penousal Machado

  8. ICIS, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Elena Marchiori

  9. Universidade de A Coruña, CP 15071, A Coruña, Spain

    Juan Romero

  10. School of Computing Sciences, University of East Anglia, UEA Norwich, NR4 7TJ, Norwich, UK

    George D. Smith

  11. Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

    Giovanni Squillero

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Urbano, P. (2005). Playing in the Pheromone Playground: Experiences in Swarm Painting. In: Rothlauf, F., et al. Applications of Evolutionary Computing. EvoWorkshops 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3449. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-32003-6_53

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