Archive for the 'genetic algorithms' Category
Critical Practice, a cluster of artists, researchers and academics hosted by Chelsea College of Art and Design has recently commissioned Ola Wasilkowska and Michal Piasecki to design a temporary spatial intervention for their Parade event. The event took place on 21-23 May, 2010 at Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground in London. The structure, called Assemblage in [...]
Filed under: 01 design, 05 programming and scripting, evolutionary algorithms, generative design, genetic algorithms, processing | 2 Comments
Tags: Michal Piasecki, Ola Wasilkowska, Critical Practice, Assemblage in Public, Chelsea College of Art and Design, Neil Cummings, Marsha Bradfield
Many thanks to everyone who decided to participate in the Breeding Objects Experiment 01. My initial hypothesis was that configurators with artificial selection in a GA implemented may prove to be a better tool to navigate through solution spaces with larger amount of dimensions. In other words, genetic algorithms are better tools to look for [...]
Filed under: 03 research, breeding objects experiment 01, breeding objects experiment 02, configurators, evolutionary algorithms, genetic algorithms, mass customization | 1 Comment
Tags: Federico Weber, Xylem, Voronoi diagram
Breeding Objects Experiment 01
Breeding Objects Experiment 01 is my first experiment with configurators for mass customization of products over the Internet, conducted as part of PhD research at the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies. The experiment is a comparison of two types of configurators: “parametric” configurators and genetic algorithms configurators. In parametric configurators users have to specify the [...]
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Evolve rings where commissioned and are distributed by Fluid Forms. I have co-designed them together with Krystian Kwiecinski and they are available for purchase since today. They where designed with an aid of an artificial selection in genetic algorithm (GA). I have developed the phenotype together with Krystian and then wrote a purpose-built GA tool [...]
Filed under: 01 design, 05 programming and scripting, digital fabrication, evolutionary algorithms, generative design, genetic algorithms, mass customization, printing in 3d, processing | 1 Comment
Tags: Fluid Forms, GA, jewelry, Krystian Kwiecinski, ring
John Frazer’s “An Evolutionary Architecture” from 1995 is an obligatory read for anyone interested in the amalgam of evolutionary computation and design. In other words anyone interested in the potential of “breeding designs” using evolutionary algorithms (genetic algorithms belong to this category). I was very happy to see it available online for free from the [...]
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Tags: An Evolutionary Architecture, John Frazer, AA, Architectural Association
I recently wrote an article about Sean Hanna’s and Siavash H. Mahdavi’s research into microstructure optimization for Architektura – Murator – a polish architectural design magazine. Sean Hanna is a RCUK Academic Fellow in Space and Adaptive Architectures based at the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies of UCL. His microstructure optimization is essentially a design [...]
Filed under: 07 texts, digital fabrication, digital paradigm, generative design, genetic algorithms | 1 Comment
Tags: Michal Piasecki, microstructure, Sean Hanna, SLS
Previously I have written in general about Creative Coding / Laser Cutting session organized by Fluid Forms. Now it’s time to write about what have I actually done during those 2 days. I have focused on the engraving feature of 500 speedy laser cutter. The software driving it has a capacity to read raster images [...]
Filed under: 01 design, 05 programming and scripting, cellular automata, digital fabrication, generative design, genetic algorithms, laser cutting, workshops | 1 Comment
Tags: Fluid Forms, Michal Piasecki
The video above is the final presentation of my second term programming project at the Msc Adaptive Architecture and Computation at the Bartlett, UCL. Underneath you can find a detailed description of the software as well as some photos of phenotypes fabricated for the 2nd term final exhibition which took place at Bartlett’s Wates House [...]
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I’m currently working on external embryogeny genetic algorithm software. Previously I have posted about the artificial selection step incorporated in it already. Time which it takes to produce particular individual on a laser cutter serves as a fitness function in this step. Now, I have incorporated an artificial selection step into it. I took a [...]
Filed under: 05 programming and scripting, Msc AAC, digital fabrication, generative design, genetic algorithms, laser cutting, processing | Leave a Comment
