NEAT Particles

Therefore, non-programmer, non-artist users may evolve complex and unique special effects in real time.

NEAT Particles is meant to augment and assist the time-consuming computer graphics content generation process.

A simple, interactive evolutionary computation (IEC) interface enables user guided evolution.

The methodology of NEAT Particles can be applied to generation of other types of content, such as 3D models or programmable shader effects.

The most significant implication of NEAT Particles and other Interactive evolutionary computation applications, is the possibility of automated content generation within a game itself, while it is played.

NEAT Particles IEC interface.
Close up of an evolved particle effect and its ANN.