author Jeffrey Ventrella

The Family Tree of Fractal Curves A taxonomy of plane-filling curves using complex integer lattices

Brainfilling Curves (A Fractal Bestiary) Hundreds of color images, strange specimens, and intuitive explanations of Koch construction

Virtual Body Language The History and Future of Avatars: How Nonverbal Expression is Evolving on the Internet

Divisor Drips and Square Root Waves Prime Numbers are the Holes in Complex Composite Number Patterns

Papers, chapters, articles, etc. by Jeffrey Ventrella

Composite Number Polyrhythms (Animating and Sonifying the Divisor Plot) Proceedings of Bridges 2022: Mathematics, Art, Music, Architecture, Culture

2022

Designing Fractal Curves with Five-Fold Rotational Symmetry (Using the Complex Number Golden Ratio) Proceedings of Bridges 2021: Mathematics, Art, Music, Architecture, Culture

2021

Is John Conway in Heaven with the Surreal Numbers? The passing of a genius who saw infinity raises questions about the nature of mathematics

2020

Psychedelics and the Case Against Reality Three books inspired this essay: The Case Against Reality, Food of the Gods, and How to Change your Mind.

2019

Embodied AI Characters for Emergent Narrative from OurMedia Blog

2017

Virtual Gaze (The communicative energy between avatar faces) Nonverbal Communication in Virtual Worlds: Understanding and Designing Expressive Characters

2014

Avatar puppeteering (direct manipulation of avatar joints for spontaneous body language) Nonverbal Communication in Virtual Worlds: Understanding and Designing Expressive Characters

2014

A Spherical XOR Gate Implemented in the Game of Life Published in Game of Life Cellular Automata, by Springer. Editor: Andrew Adamatzky.

2010

The Gestural Turing Test Published in the conference proceedings of AAMAS Workshop on Interacting with ECAs as Virtual Characters

2010

Self-Portraits with Mandelbrot Genetics Published by Springer in the conference proceedings of Smart Graphics, 2010. (described here).

2010

Glider Dynamics on the Sphere: Exploring Cellular Automata on Geodesic Grids Published in the Journal of Cellular Automata, Old City Publishing. Editor in Chief: Andrew Adamatzky Read the abstract HERE)

2010

Evolving the Mandelbrot Set to Imitate Figurative Art Published in Design by Evolution. Editors: Hingston, Philip F.; Barone, Luigi C.; Zbigniew, Michalewicz. Springer (read about it in MandelbrotGenetics.com)

2008

Evolving Structure in Liquid Music Published in The Art of Artificial Evolution editors: Penousal Machado and Juan Romero. Springer (play with it: Musical Gene Pool)

2008

Gliders and Riders (A Particle Swarm Selects for Coherent Space-Time Structures in Evolving Cellular Automata) published in Stigmergic Optimization. Editors: Grosan and Abraham. Springer

2006

A Particle Swarm Selects for Evolution of Gliders in Non-Uniform 2D Cellular Automata Published in Alife X Proceedings, MIT Press

2006

Gene Pool: Exploring the Interaction Between Natural Selection and Sexual Selection published in Artificial Life Models in Software, edited by Andrew Adamatzky and Maciej Komosinski, Springer, 2005

2006

Avatar Physics and Genetics published in Virtual Worlds. Edited by Heudin, J.C. Springer.

2000

Designing Emergence in Animated Artificial Life Worlds published in Virtual Worlds - Synthetic Universes, Digital Life and Complexity edited by Jean-Claude Heudin. Perseus Books

1999

Attractiveness vs. Efficiency - How Mate Preference Affects Locomotion in the Evolution of Artificial Swimming Organisms Published in Artificial Life VI Proceedings, MIT Press.

1998

Sexual Swimmers - Emergent Morphology and Locomotion without a Fitness Function Published in From Animals to Animats. MIT Press.

1996

Eukaryotic Virtual Reality - The Emergent Art of Artificial Life Published in ISEA Conference proceedings. (read the paper from Ventrella.com)

1995

Disney Meets Darwin - The Evolution of Funny Animated Figures Published in Computer Animation '95 Proceedings, IEEE

1995

Explorations in the Emergence of Morphology and Locomotion Behavior in Animated Characters Published in: Artificial Life IV Proceedings, MIT Press.

1994

Disney Meets Darwin - An Evolution-based Interface for Exploration and Design of Expressive Animated Behavior (MIT Media Lab Master's Thesis). MIT Press.

1994

Creatures of the Complex Plane IRIS Universe, Summer 1988, pages 12-14

1988