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Bio-inspired Things and Stuff by JJ Ventrella


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BrainMaze Microworld JavaBug



Peanut Bird Expressive Phyisics


Avatar animation Disney Meets Darwin


Biota 3 Drum Sticks






Evolving the Mandelbrot Set to Imitate Figurative Art
Published in Design by Evolution. Editors: Hingston, Philip F.; Barone, Luigi C.; Zbigniew, Michalewicz. Springer, 2008
(read about it in MandelbrotGenetics.com)


Evolving Structure in Liquid Music
Published in The Art of Artificial Evolution editors: Penousal Machado and Juan Romero. Springer, 2008
(play with it: Musical Gene Pool)


Gliders and Riders
(A Particle Swarm Selects for Coherent Space-Time Structures in Evolving Cellular Automata)
published in Stigmergic Optimization. Editors: Grosan and Abraham. Springer, 2006



A Particle Swarm Selects for Evolution of Gliders in Non-Uniform 2D Cellular Automata
Published in Alife X Proceedings, MIT Press, 2006


Gene Pool: Exploring the Interaction Between Natural Selection and Sexual Selection
published in Artificial Life Models in Software, edited by Andrew Adamatzky and Maciej Komosinski, Springer, 2005

Avatar Physics and Genetics
published in Virtual Worlds. Edited by Heudin, J.C. Springer, 2000.
(read the paper from Ventrella.com)

Designing Emergence in Animated Artificial Life Worlds
published in Virtual Worlds - Synthetic Universes, Digital Life and Complexity
edited by Jean-Claude Heudin. Perseus Books, 1999
(read the paper from Ventrella.com)

Attractiveness vs. Efficiency - How Mate Preference Affects Locomotion in the Evolution of Artificial Swimming Organisms
Published in Artificial Life VI Proceedings, MIT Press. 1998
(read the paper from Ventrella.com)

Sexual Swimmers - Emergent Morphology and Locomotion without a Fitness Function
Published in From Animals to Animats. MIT Press, 1996
(read the paper from Ventrella.com)

Eukaryotic Virtual Reality - The Emergent Art of Artificial Life
Published in ISEA Conference proceedings. 1995
(read the paper from Ventrella.com)

Disney Meets Darwin - The Evolution of Funny Animated Figures
Published in Computer Animation '95 Proceedings, IEEE, 1995
(read the paper from Ventrella.com)

Explorations in the Emergence of Morphology and Locomotion Behavior in Animated Characters
Published in: Artificial Life IV Proceedings, MIT Press, 1994
(read the paper from Ventrella.com)

Disney Meets Darwin - An Evolution-based Interface for Exploration and Design of Expressive Animated Behavior
(MIT Media Lab Master's Thesis). MIT Press, 1994
(read the paper from Ventrella.com)

Walker (updated version of 1990 paper)
(unpublished)

Creatures of the Complex Plane 1988
IRIS Universe, Summer, 1988, pages 12-14