Branching and Lotus Example files

I. John Frazier’s Evolutionary Architecture

Physical computing: interaction creates electronic connections between modules > Skylar Tibbett’s project to embed intelligence

Concept of creating many unexpected variations

Genetic algorithms create rules for creating the next generation and then making a selection of survivors. (Natural articulated rules vs. Artificial selection through intuition).
Convergent vs. Divergent solutions

The Development system reads the environment and the genes to create results which provides feedback to both. The Genetic algorithm determines how the child variants are created from the parents and how results are sorted.
It has to be a consistent system generating reliable results

II. Evolutionary Development: Master Hox genes turn on genes that create parts of the body. Chicken Teeth can be created when latent extinct genes are accidently activated:

John Conway’s Game of Life video showing the simplest computational genetic system (3:30 min.)

Prof. Robert Sapolsky on Emergence and Complexity explains mathmatics in the context of biological phenomena: how simple mechanisms can create complexity.

Fractals and Recursion (idea of branching)

Oregon Explorer has a Wildlife Explorer

HOMEWORK:

1) Assignment 1B: Rhino / Grasshopper model of a natural form, process or system (select something whose organization, form or dynamic might have architectural application.

2) Reading: Jean Frasier’s Evolutionary Architecture and Sean Carroll’s Endless Forms Most Beautiful. Chapters 1 and 2.

3) Install Kangaroo Physics GH plugin