27
Jan
2009
GAs are cool apparently
I’m reviewing the applications for SG at the moment, and there are an awful lot of people wanting to do some sort of optimisation based proposal at the workshop.Whilst I’m very keen for people to peruse this avenue, there seems to be a general level of naivety about how much a GA, or any other algorithmic improvement method can actually do to help in the design process. Hopefully this will subside as the wave of euphoria passes.My current feeling is that optimisation is essentially trivial, and evaluation is where we ought to be directing our efforts. There are kinds of things that could be evaluated and then given that feedback, we could use our really quite advanced problem solving brains to deal with all the little problems that are flagged up by the evaluation routines.That rant over with, I’m quite optimistic about the general state of the SG applications, there is some interesting stuff in there that I hope will get shared with the wider world as soon as possible!
8
Jan
2009
Smart Geometry pre-training
There is going to be the Australian pre-training for this years Smart geometry conference this Monday and Tuesday.
If you are considering an application, or are making one, but haven’t submitted it, contact me and I’ll fit you into the attendee list. if you don’t have my email address you can either make a comment on this post, or email me – ben@ this site .co.uk
It should be excelent as Prof Rob Woodbury is over from SFU in Canada to join in with the training. (he taught me many years ago!)
8
Jan
2009
22
Dec
2008
new video tutorial for the GC reactive component tutorial
Reactive component video tutorial from ben doherty on Vimeo.
This video goes with the pdf tutorial of the same name.
The video that you’ll see in the embeded window isn’t really good enough to see it properly, but it’s just about passable at full screen.
However, if you follow the link to the vimeo page , you can download the full resolution video which is actually quite sharp.
There will be new videos coming soon hopefully now I’ve got the workflow figured out.
4
Dec
2008
Genetic algorithms lecture
Here are the slides from my talk at UTS last Thursday at the generative components university program show case, about genetic algorithms. The slides don’t make a huge amount of sense on their own, but if you were there, it might jog your memory.
The talk was filmed, and I’ve been promised that it’ll show up on Google video at some point in the future if you want to see what I have to say about blind darts playing pirates and their relevance to heuristic algorithms.
Acrobat butchered some of the text when I exported, but otherwise it’s all fine. There are 2 live demos that aren’t in there, but they’ll show up in the video and I’ll publish the code soon.