Evolutionary Art Using the Fly Algorithm

Description of impact

Art artefacts produced using technique was on display at the Art&Science in EvolutionaryComputation exhibit organised by Galerie Louchard, Paris in October 2017.Galerie Louchard used our artworks on the flyers promoting the exhibit. Amongst the 9 artworks on the flyers, 5 were issues from our research. Galerie Louchard placed one of our artworks in the window to attract visitors from the near by streets. One of our artefacts was sold (although I chose to donate it to simply tax issues).
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) used one of our artworks as the cover of its newsletter on artificial evolution. one of our artworksone of our artworks

Impact Summary for the General Public

The artwork on was created by Dr Zainab Ali Abbood as part of her PhD dissertation supervised by Dr Franck P. Vidal at Bangor University (Wales, UK). She implemented Fly4Arts: Evolutionary Digital Art with the Fly Algorithm, an image filter implemented using GPU computing. It takes a photograph as an input and automatically generate a mosaic-like artwork as an output.

Description of the underpinning research

Our method is based on the Parisian Evolution / Cooperative Co-evolution principle. The algorithm contains all the usual components of an evolutionary algorithm. In addition, there is a "global'' fitness calculated on the whole population, and a local fitness assessing the contribution of each individual. Each individual represents a paintbrush stroke, and the population is the image canvas. Each stroke has a pattern, size, orientation, colour and position in the 3-D Euclidean space. The 3rd dimension is needed so strokes can partially occlude one another. Fly4Arts has been presented at the Biennial International Conference on Artificial Evolution (EA-2017), European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary (EvoApplications 2017) and in “Fly4Arts: Evolutionary Digital Art with the Fly Algorithm,” Arts Sci., vol. 17, no. 1, Oct. 2017.

Beneficiaries and reach of impact

general public (art gallery)
ACM (use of our artwork as the cover of its newsletter)

Impact status	Ongoing
Impact level	Engagement