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Evolutionary computation is a field defined by large data sets and complex relationships. Because of this complexity it can be difficult to identify trends and patterns that can help improve future projects and drive experimentation. To address this we present evoVision3D, a multiscale 3D system designed to take data sets from evolutionary design experiments and visualize them in order to assist in their inspection and analysis. Our system is implemented in the Unity 3D game development environment, for which we show that it lends itself to immersive navigation through large data sets, going even beyond evolution-based search and interactive data exploration.
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Kelly, J.J., Jacob, C. (2016). evoVision3D: A Multiscale Visualization of Evolutionary Histories. In: Handl, J., Hart, E., Lewis, P., López-Ibáñez, M., Ochoa, G., Paechter, B. (eds) Parallel Problem Solving from Nature – PPSN XIV. PPSN 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9921. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45823-6_88
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