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Evolving Virtual Creature
Jiayuan and Jiajun
Computer Graphics Final Project Proposal
- Who are they?
- I don’t know!
The Goal
Reproducing the famous work
“Evolving Virtual Creature” by
Karl Sims 94’ SIGGRAPH
Basic Elements
 Evolution
 Genetic Algorithm
 Intelligence
 Neuron Network
 Physical Simulation
 Dynamics: ground (ODE), under water
 Animation
 Camera
Demo
After one month
programming and debugging,
Finally...
The Brain
Three layers:
3 types of Sensors (Contact, Joint, and Vision)
24 types of Neurons (Sum, Sin, log, Sigmoid, etc)
2 types of Effectors (Hinge joint and Motor joint)
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