NEAT particles: Design, representation, and animation of particle system effects

Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 154-160

  Hastings, Erin ^a   Guha, Ratan ^a   Stanley, Kenneth O ^a  

^a University of Central Florida

Author keywords

IEC; Interactive evolutionary computation; NEAT; NeuroEvolution of augmenting topologies; Particle systems

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; SPECIAL EFFECTS; USER INTERFACES;

CONTENT DESIGNERS; INTERACTIVE EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION (IEC); NEUROEVOLUTION OF AUGMENTING TOPOLOGIES (NEAT); PARTICLE EFFECT DEVELOPMENT;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 34548800202     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CIG.2007.368092     Document Type: Conference Paper

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