I have spent so many hours staring at Electric Sheep, thinking and wondering about how it works, that I finally looked it up, and found the papers about it!

It took less time to read the papers than it took to stare at the screen all day tripping out and wondering, but I like to do both.

The Flame Algorithm

Flames are algorithmically generated images and animations. The software was originally written in 1992 and released as open source, aka free software. Over the years it has been greatly expanded, and is now widely used to create art and special effects. The shape and color of each image is specified by a long string of numbers - a genetic code of sorts.

http://flam3.com/

The Fractal Flame Algorithm

http://flam3.com/flame.pdf

Evolution and Collective Intelligence of the Electric Sheep

http://draves.org/aoae07/draves-aoae07.pdf

The Electric Sheep and their Dreams in High Fidelity

http://draves.org/npar06/npar06draves.pdf

infinite evolving crowdsourced artwork

https://github.com/scottdraves/electricsheep

Copyright Spotworks LLC GPL2 Licensed see https://github.com/scottdraves/electricsheep/blob/master/cli...

2015.05 moved from code.google.com repo 2011.01.30 based on revision 1546 on sf.net

The Electric Sheep is a cyborg mind. It harnesses the collective intelligence of 450,000 computers and people to create abstract art with mathematics and Darwinian evolution. The result is seamless, organic, and infinite. See also http://electricsheep.org and http://scottdraves.com .

The rendering engine is a separate project at https://github.com/scottdraves/flam3