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This chapter describes how genetic programming was used as an invention machine to automatically synthesize a complete design for an aspherical optical lens system (a type of lens system that is especially difficult to design and that offers advantages in terms of cost, weight, size, and performance over traditional spherical systems). The genetically evolved aspherical lens system duplicated the functionality of a recently patented aspherical system. The automatic synthesis was open-ended — that is, the process did not start from a pre-existing good design and did not pre-specify the number of lenses, which lenses (if any) should be spherical or aspherical, the topological arrangement of the lenses, the numerical parameters of the lenses, or the non-numerical parameters of the lenses. The genetically evolved design is an instance of human-competitive results produced by genetic programming in the field of optical design.
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Jones, L.W., Al-Sakran, S.H., Koza, J.R. (2006). Automated Design of a Previously Patented Aspherical Optical Lens System by Means of Genetic Programming. In: Yu, T., Riolo, R., Worzel, B. (eds) Genetic Programming Theory and Practice III. Genetic Programming, vol 9. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-28111-8_3
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