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