Fascinating demonstration and it is also creepy.
Need to know more about programming self-evolution.
Animators do animation, anything else is not animation.
Camera did not put the painters out of job.
Stunt man will eventually be out of job and soon actors too.
Jean-Sebastien Perron
www.NeuroWorld.ws
Mark Heuymans wrote:
Stumbled upon this, about evolutionary simulated bodypart control
http://www.ted.com/talks/torsten_reil_studies_biology_to_make_animation.html
Reil was probably inspired by Karl Sims
http://www.karlsims.com/
John Holland is also a pioneer in the field.
Imagine something like this: Chrono controls the bodyparts. Chrono is
controlled by a brain/actuator system that has 'learned' how to
perform the 'task' optimally. The brain is all Javascript, including
the evolutionary part... just a wild thought ;)
-Mark H
