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evoExplore: Multiscale Visualization of Evolutionary Histories in Virtual Reality

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Computational Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART 2018)

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evoExplore is a system built for virtual reality (VR) and designed to assist evolutionary design projects. Built with the Unity 3D game engine and designed with future development and expansion in mind, evoExplore allows the user to review and visualize data collected from evolutionary design experiments. Expanding upon existing work, evoExplore provides the tools needed to breed your own evolving populations of designs, save the results from such evolutionary experiments and then visualize the recorded data as an interactive VR experience. evoExplore allows the user to dynamically explore their own evolutionary experiments, as well as those produced by other users. In this document we describe the features of evoExplore, its use of virtual reality and how it supports future development and expansion.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, 2500 University Dr NW, Calgary, AB, T2N 1N4, Canada

    Justin Kelly & Christian Jacob

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  1. University of Malta , Msida , Malta

    Antonios Liapis

  2. University of A Coruña , A Coruña, Spain

    Juan Jesús Romero Cardalda

  3. Aston University , Birmingham, United Kingdom

    Anikó Ekárt

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Kelly, J., Jacob, C. (2018). evoExplore: Multiscale Visualization of Evolutionary Histories in Virtual Reality. In: Liapis, A., Romero Cardalda, J., Ekárt, A. (eds) Computational Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design. EvoMUSART 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10783. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77583-8_8

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