Bio-inspired Things and Stuff by
JJ Ventrella
Musical Gene Pool
presentation in Bilbao Spain
A Particle Swarm Selects for Evolution of Gliders in Non-Uniform 2D Cellular Automata
published in the Proceedings of
Alife X, 2006
(the 10th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems) MIT Press, 2006
Gene Pool: Exploring the Interaction Between Natural Selection and Sexual Selection
published as Chapter 4 in
Artificial Life Models in Software, edited by Andrew Adamatzky and Maciej Komosinski, Springer, 2005
Avatar Physics and Genetics
published in Virtual Worlds (ed. Heudin, J.C.), Springer-Verlag Berlin/Heidelberg, 2000
Animated Artificial Life
Chapter 3 of the book, Virtual Worlds: Synthetic Universes, Digital Life, and Complexity
edited by Jean-Claude Heudin. Perseus Books, 1999
Attractiveness vs. Efficiency 1998
"How Mate Preference Affects Locomotion in the Evolution of Artificial Swimming Organisms"
published in "Artificial Life VI Proceedings" MIT Press)
Sexual Swimmers 1996
"Emergent Morphology and Locomotion without a Fitness Function"
published in "From Animals to Animats" (page 484) MIT Press)
Eukaryotic Virtual Reality 1995
"The Emergent Art of Artificial Life"
(published in ISEA conference proceedings)
Disney Meets Darwin 1995
"The Evolution of Funny Animated Figures"
(published in Computer Animation '95 Proceedings, IEEE)
Explorations in the Emergence of Morphology and Locomotion Behavior
in Animated Characters 1994
(published in: Artificial Life IV Proceedings, MIT Press)
Disney Meets Darwin 1994
"An Evolution-based Interface for Exploration and Design of Expressive Animated Behavior"
(MIT Media Lab Master's Thesis), MIT Press
Walker (updated version of 1990 paper)
(unpublished)
Creatures of the Complex Plane 1988
IRIS Universe, Summer, 1988, pages 12-14