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Creating Choreography with Interactive Evolutionary Algorithms

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Applications of Evolutionary Computation (EvoApplications 2011)

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Directing a group behavior towards interesting and complex motion can and should be intuitive, iterative, and often participatory. Toward this end, we present a choreographic system that enables designers to explore a motion space based on a parametric model of behaviors. Designers may work with the system by moving back and forth through two complementary stages: first, using an evolutionary algorithm to traverse the space of behavior possibilities, allowing designers to emphasize desired kinds of motion while leaving room for an element of the unexpected, and second, using selected behaviors to direct the group motion of simple performing creatures. In the second stage, evolved group motion behaviors from the first stage are used alongside existing high-level parametric rules for local articulated motion.

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  1. Computer Science & Engineering, The Ohio State University, 2015 Neil Ave, Columbus, OH, USA

    Jonathan Eisenmann, Benjamin Schroeder & Rick Parent

  2. Advanced Computing Center for the Arts & Design, The Ohio State University, 1224 Kinnear Rd, Columbus, OH, USA

    Matthew Lewis

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Strathclyde, 16 Richmond Street, G1 1XQ, Glasgow, UK

    Cecilia Di Chio

  2. School of Business, University College Dublin, 4, Belfield, Dublin, UK

    Anthony Brabazon

  3. Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull’Intelligenza Artificiale (IDSIA), Galleria 2, 6928, Manno-Lugano, Switzerland

    Gianni A. Di Caro

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

    Rolf Drechsler

  5. Next Generation Intelligent Networks Research Center (nexGIN RC), National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences (FAST-NU), Islamabad, Pakistan

    Muddassar Farooq

  6. Department of Information Systems, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, 55099, Mainz, Germany

    Jörn Grahl

  7. Mathematics and Computer Science Depatment, University of Richmond, 23173, Richmond, VA, USA

    Gary Greenfield

  8. ICD - OSI, University of Technology of Troyes, 12, Rue Marie Curie, BP 2060, 10010, Troyes, France

    Christian Prins

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

    Juan Romero

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

    Giovanni Squillero

  11. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad Alte Prestazioni (ICAR), Via P. Castellino 111, 80131, Naples, Italy

    Ernesto Tarantino

  12. Dipartimento di Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Bramante 65, 26013, Crema (CR), Italy

    Andrea G. B. Tettamanzi

  13. School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University, 10 Clinton Road, EH10 5DT, Edinburgh, UK

    Neil Urquhart

  14. Computer Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University, Room Nr. 3302, Maslak, 34469, Istanbul, Turkey

    A. Åžima Uyar

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Eisenmann, J., Schroeder, B., Lewis, M., Parent, R. (2011). Creating Choreography with Interactive Evolutionary Algorithms. In: Di Chio, C., et al. Applications of Evolutionary Computation. EvoApplications 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6625. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20520-0_30

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