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"Just hit random until something nice comes out." Reformulate as 'have a system for building new bodies, add a little bit of randomness, and have an environmen
by keithpeter 8y ago
"Just hit random until something nice comes out."
Reformulate as 'have a system for building new bodies, add a little bit of randomness, and have an environment that selects for survival' and you have life.
- TheOtherHobbes 8y agoLife has ecosystems and - eventually - sentience. This has neither. To be fair, it's much more interesting than most generative art. Although it's also very influenced by heritage art styles, which makes it less fresh than it might be. I think the prodigy label is more likely to apply to someone like Raven Kwok. I've been watching him do amazing things with code for a few years now, and he's been consistently inventive, original, and surprising.