- author = "Karl Sims",
- title = "Evolving Virtual Creatures",
- booktitle = "Computer Graphics, Annual Conference Series, (SIGGRAPH 1994 Proceedings)",
- year = "1994",
- editor = "Dino Schweitzer and Andrew Glassner and Mike Keeler",
- pages = "15--22",
- address = "Orlando, FL, USA",
- month = jul # " 24-29",
- publisher = "ACM",
- keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, virtual creature morphology, 3D world, Featherstone, Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg, control, sensors, phenotype, swimming, walking, jumping, 1/5 survival ratio, nested graph genotype, recursive limit, mating directed graphs, mutation, crossover, grafting, Parallel computing, CM-5, debugging",
- ISBN = "0-89791-667-0",
-
URL = "
http://web.genarts.com/karl/papers/siggraph94.pdf",
-
DOI = "
10.1145/192161.192167",
-
video_url = "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZtZia4ZkX8",
- acmid = "192167",
- size = "8 pages",
-
abstract = "creating virtual creatures that move and behave in
simulated three-dimensional physical worlds. The
morphologies of creatures and the neural systems for
controlling their muscle forces are both generated
automatically using genetic algorithms. Different
fitness evaluation functions are used to direct
simulated evolutions towards specific behaviours such
as swimming, walking, jumping, and following.
A genetic language is presented that uses nodes and connections as its primitive elements to represent directed graphs, which are used to describe both the morphology and the neural circuitry of these creatures. This genetic language defines a hyperspace containing an indefinite number of possible creatures with behaviors, and when it is searched using optimisation techniques, a variety of successful and interesting locomotion strategies emerge, some of which would be difficult to invent or build by design.",
-
notes = "Also known as \cite{Sims:1994:EVC:192161.192167}
https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=192161
'Any [simulation] bugs ... will inevitably be discovered and exploited by the evolving creatures.'
'unbounded genetic languages allows evolving systems to increase in complexity beyond our understanding'
SIGGRAPH '94 Proceedings of the 21st annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques",
