Wait, you made this whole GUI? Damn. -SB
I think he said it was a three year (so far) project.
…oh. Ahh, I see what he’s done here now. I’m all for building off of existing code.
They all look a little too similar to each other for my liking, like Rorscach tests but in like 20 different forms (I think I saw a guy’s face in one, but that may just mean I have issues with my father.) It’s a neat trick, but I can’t really see myself using this unless I want that very specific look – even *with* the evolution of shapes. I feel like it needs a few more knobs (maybe even randomly applied) to modify the output. -SB

It would be cool to have them make different Rorschach blots
But I’d like it more if you made the thing so that you can have different ways to combine the shapes so it’s more than mirror view, like a kaleidoscope
Very cool application of genetic programming.

It might be more interesting to get feedback from several people instead of using the evolver. If you had several sketches and asked a group of people (through something like mechanical turk) which ones they find most visually stimulating, the resulting image might say a bit more about what the general public finds interesting to look at. -GFU

Computers are good at repeating. Could this be a direction for physical digital output？imagine a robotic hand drawoing the “brush shape” over and over when I draw a line, and when it touches previous line of shape, some sort of mating happens.
The mirroring affect can also be an extension machine provides . -CX

Interesting application of generating brushmarks — but there is currently no shape parameterization linked to the to brush action, user gesture, simulated ink/brush kinematics, etc. Is there a way to have the evolution and the drawing modes interoperate more seamlessly, perhaps co-operating simultaneously?

I’m finding the shapes evolving process more interesting on its own than when they’re combined with the drawing program. I wonder if there’s any other way to use the shapes?
Also it would be cool to use color as another feature that can be evolved.

Could the brush continue to evolve and mutate as you draw? so you couldn’t look at a brush stroke and make out that it was just a shape that is stamped across a curve, but rather something more lifelike, random or gestural. Very very cool work though I think.