Wednesday 12 November 2008

Creating Synthetic Identities in I'Myth: Zapping Zone

Diana Domingues
NTAV Lab, Universidade de Caxias do Sul
Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Master's Programme in Communication and Languages, Universidade Tuiuti
Curitiba, ParanĂ¡
Brazil

Eliseo Reategui
Computer Science Department, Universidade de Caxias do Sul
Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul
Brazil

Abstract. This paper presents an interactive and immersive installation that combines physical objects, virtual reality concepts and artificial intelligence to generate a hybrid place that blurs the limits between virtual and real. Mutant narratives emerge from representations of legendary individuals, or ‘myths,’ through categorised terms and virtual images. Genetic algorithms control the evolution of a population to generate new individuals with original features and images. These images are rendered in real time, using a proprietary graphics library that exploits functions such as dynamic meshing, morphing and blending, allied to lighting and texture synthesis.

Paper here.

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