By comparing the magical creatures within Harry Potter to the nineteenth-century freak show, the mistreatment and lack of concern for the basic rights of centaurs, giants, and house-elves are put into perspective due to the now-uneasy feeling many acquire when thinking of the exhibition of people as “freaks.” Digital Literature Review, vol. 3 (2016). © Ball State University. All Rights Reserved...

We present a system that can evolve the morphology and the controller of virtual walking and block-throwing creatures (catapults) using a genetic algorithm. The system is based on Sims' work, implemented as a flexible platform with an off-the-shelf dynamics engine. Experiments aimed at evolving Sims-type walkers resulted in the emergence of various realistic gaits while using fairly simple obje...

Virtual characters play an important role in computergenerated environments, such as, video games, training simulations, and animated films. Traditional character animation control methods evolve around key-frame systems and rigid skeletons. In this paper, we investigate the creation and control of soft-body creatures. We develop creatures that learn their own motor controls and mimic animal be...

We propose, based on the Peircean semiotics and inspired by an ethological case, a methodology to simulate the emergence of symbolic predator-warning communication among artificial creatures in a virtual world of predatory events. In order to build a digital ecosystem, and infer the minimum organizational constraints for the design of our creatures, we examined the well-studied case of semiosis...

The Problem: The simulated evolution of virtual creatures has produced many intriguing demonstrations, providing simple locomotion abilities and strategies for simple competetive games. However, to achieve a richer set of behaviours, adaptation within the individual’s lifetime is being explored. Can evolution be used to learn domain specific rules for solving the credit assignment problem and s...

Gula aren merupakan salah satu hasil dari komoditas perkebunan yang memiliki nilai ekonomis sangat tinggi serta prospek baik untuk dikembangkan sehingga berpeluang besar dalam meningkatkan perekonomian masyarakat suatu wilayah. Kabupaten Aceh Tenggara daerah wilayah dengan potensi luas bisa memproduksi gula kuantitas dan kwalitas baik. Adapun tujuan penelitian ini adalah menyususn strategi peng...

Tabako-ohiturak gaixotasun kroniko gehienak pairatzeko arriskua areagotu dezakeen zabaldutako aztura da. Hauen artean, hipertentsioaren eragilea izan daitekeela behatu Honez gain, jarduera fisikoarekiko (JF) tolerantzian eta bihotz-biriketako funtzioan eragin kaltegarria dezake. Izan ere, JF-ak arrisku hauen garapena murriztu ditzake, bihotz-birika gaitasunean (BBG) hobekuntzak eragiten. Hortaz...