Published Papers and Chapters by Jeffrey Ventrella
A Spherical XOR Gate Implemented in the Game of Life
Book chapter to be published in Game of Life Cellular Automata , by Springer in 2010. Editor: Andrew Adamatzky.
The Gestural Turing Test
to be published in the conference proceedings of
AAMAS Workshop on Interacting with ECAs as Virtual Characters, 2010
Self-Portraits in Mandelbrot Genetics
to be published by Springer in the conference proceedings of
Smart Graphics, 2010 .
Glider Dynamics on the Sphere: Exploring Cellular Automata on Geodesic Grids
To be published in the
Journal of Cellular Automata ,
Old City Publishing. Editor in Chief: Andrew Adamatzky, 2010
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.
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
Attractiveness vs. Efficiency -
How Mate Preference Affects Locomotion in the Evolution of Artificial Swimming Organisms
Published in
Artificial Life VI Proceedings , MIT Press. 1998
Sexual Swimmers - Emergent Morphology and Locomotion without a Fitness Function
Published in
From Animals to Animats . MIT Press, 1996
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
Explorations in the Emergence of Morphology and Locomotion Behavior in Animated Characters
Published in: Artificial Life IV Proceedings, MIT Press, 1994
Disney Meets Darwin -
An Evolution-based Interface for Exploration and Design of Expressive Animated Behavior
(MIT Media Lab Master's Thesis). MIT Press, 1994
Creatures of the Complex Plane 1988
IRIS Universe , Summer, 1988, pages 12-14
A new book about complex patterns in very large composite numbers, related to the distribution of primes