This post will continue yesterday’s MSG effect post by detailing how I started with yesterday’s MSG preset and then worked with directed evolution in the Evolution Editor to build a new MSG abstraction effect. Part of working with directed evolution involves what I call hand cleanup, checking the IO connections and doing minor hand…
The following screen shot shows the MSG Evolution Editor and it’s associated context menu commands. The context menu command called Run TG Grid Preview allows you to preview MSG presets that incorporate temporal generators attached to individual editable parameters. All of the individual small MSG preview cells will self-animate when TG Grid Preview is…
The image above is a piece of procedural art generated from a directed evolution session that started with the MSG preset configuration we built in yesterday’s post. We’ll take a look at the process I followed to create this image, and reflect on the nature of hand built design vs directed random mutation and evolution…
All of the different abstract images in this post were generated by working with Swap evolution in the Evolution Editor starting from the MSG preset we built in yesterday’s post. So we’re working with a fixed IO (input-output) routing configuration for all of the different effects. And the number of processors in the MSG effect…
This post shows examples of different procedural images created using Swap evolution in the Evolution Editor, starting with the simple colorization preset we built in yesterday’s post. The point being that even with a simple MSG processor configuration by working with Swap and Mutate evolution processes you can still generate an infinite variety of different…