Genetic Art in Silverlight

The plan:
-Build a tool for creating evolutionary art.
-Most evolutionary art is done with genetic algorithms. This one will be done through hacking and crowdsourcing!

General approach:
*Create an AST capable of representing 3d plots. 

An expession is any math function that evaluates in terms of two variables s and t eg:

x=cos(S)*2T

A 3D expressions is composed of an expression for each of its three axes.

*Build a UI for visualizing the equations. Silverlight has no 3D native support, fortunately, the 3D code is not too hard to emulate using Kit3D, and some creativity.

UI features include:

• Refresh (re-generate the equation, plot the new derivative)
• Adjust speed/rotation angle
• Adjust zoom/pan
• Adjust S and T ranges
• Displays the current equation on the left pane
• Adjust resolution (because this program can be very CPU intensive on your machine)

*Build some equations to represent shapes

• Sphere
• Torus
• Spiral

*Build "splicers" that combine equations in random ways to create new generations of hybrid figures.

Progress:

This is still in a very rudimentary at the moment, but I am pumped about the potential!

Currently, it is hard-wired to try different splices of a torus and a spiral, hit the refresh to see different generations.

Try it out at:http://www.reallifedata.com/s3d/testpage.html