NEAT Particles is an interactive evolutionary computation program that enables users to evolve particle systems intended for use as special effects in video games or movie graphics. Rather than being hand-coded like typical particle systems, the behaviors of NEAT Particle effects are evolved by user preference. Therefore, non-programmer, non-artist users may evolve complex and unique special effects in real time. NEAT Particles is meant to augment and assist the time-consuming computer graphics content generation process. NEAT is short for Neuroevolution of Augmenting Topologies.
NEAT Particles IEC interface.Close up of an evolved particle effect and its ANN.
The main benefit of NEAT Particles is to decouple particle system creation from programming, allowing unique and interesting effects to be quickly evolved by users without programming or artistic skill. Additionally, it provides a way for content developers to explore the range of possible effects. And finally, it can act as a concept art tool or idea generator, in which novel and useful effects are easily discovered.
Implicationsedit
The methodology of NEAT Particles can be applied to generation of other types of content, such as 3D models or programmable shader effects. The most significant implication of NEAT Particles and other Interactive evolutionary computation applications, is the possibility of automated content generation within a game itself, while it is played.
Bibliographyedit
Erin Hastings; Ratan Guha & Kenneth O. Stanley (2007). "NEAT Particles: Design, Representation, and Animation of Particle System Effects" (PDF). Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG'07).
"Evolutionary Complexity Research Group at UCF" - home of NEAT Particles and other evolutionary complexity research projects
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neat, particles, interactive, evolutionary, computation, program, that, enables, users, evolve, particle, systems, intended, special, effects, video, games, movie, graphics, rather, than, being, hand, coded, like, typical, particle, systems, behaviors, neat, p. NEAT Particles is an interactive evolutionary computation program that enables users to evolve particle systems intended for use as special effects in video games or movie graphics Rather than being hand coded like typical particle systems the behaviors of NEAT Particle effects are evolved by user preference Therefore non programmer non artist users may evolve complex and unique special effects in real time NEAT Particles is meant to augment and assist the time consuming computer graphics content generation process NEAT is short for Neuroevolution of Augmenting Topologies NEAT Particles IEC interface Close up of an evolved particle effect and its ANN Contents 1 Method 2 Benefit 3 Implications 4 Bibliography 5 See also 6 External linksMethod editIn NEAT Particles each particle system is controlled by a Compositional pattern producing network CPPN a type of artificial neural network or ANN In other words the usually hand coded rules of a particle system are replaced by automatically generated CPPNs The CPPNs are evolved and complexified by NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies NEAT A simple interactive evolutionary computation IEC interface enables user guided evolution In this manner increasingly complex particle system effects are evolved by user preference Benefit editThe main benefit of NEAT Particles is to decouple particle system creation from programming allowing unique and interesting effects to be quickly evolved by users without programming or artistic skill Additionally it provides a way for content developers to explore the range of possible effects And finally it can act as a concept art tool or idea generator in which novel and useful effects are easily discovered Implications editThe methodology of NEAT Particles can be applied to generation of other types of content such as 3D models or programmable shader effects The most significant implication of NEAT Particles and other Interactive evolutionary computation applications is the possibility of automated content generation within a game itself while it is played Bibliography editErin Hastings Ratan Guha amp Kenneth O Stanley 2007 NEAT Particles Design Representation and Animation of Particle System Effects PDF Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games CIG 07 See also editParticle system NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies Interactive evolutionary computation Evolutionary artExternal links edit Evolutionary Complexity Research Group at UCF home of NEAT Particles and other evolutionary complexity research projects NEAT Particles latest source code and executable Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title NEAT Particles amp oldid 1016884921, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
