Kandid, a genetic art project,

Kandid is a system to evolve graphics. Graphics, in Kandid, is not drawn by hand. Instead new forms can be found using genetic algorithms. To achieve this aim Kandid simulates evolution using sexual reproduction and populations. But there is no fitness function in side the program. Only the user decide which images are interesting.

To simulate evolution Kandid uses crossing over, mutation, populations and has a gene data base. Image calculation is based on Lisp like expressions, Iterated Function Systems (IFS), Linear Cellular Automata (LCA), Voroni diagrams, Lindenmayer Systems (L-systems), and layered textures renderd by Persistence of Vision

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Java WEB Start

Kandid 1.0 available.

After three years of development the framework for genetic art has reached a stable state.
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WEB database for Kandid

You can share the chromosomes of your favourite images with other Kandid users. The chromosomes are stored in a public available database at kandid.org. All published image are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0.
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WEB database for Kandid
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"The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries, with vast air shafts between, surrounded by very low railings. There are five shelves for each of the hexagon's walls; each shelf contains thirty-five books of uniform format; each book is of four hundred and ten pages; each page, of forty lines, each line, of some eighty letters which are black in color."

Jorge Luis Borges

At least Java 1.4 and Java WEB Start 1.0.1 is required to run the Kandid.

Text and images are licensed under a Creative Commons License.

This software is licensed under the CC-GNU GPL.