Evolution of artificial terrains for video games based on obstacles edge length

2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, WCCI 2010 - 2010 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Frade, Miguel ^a   De Vega, F Fernandez ^b   Cotta, Carlos ^c  

^a POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF LEIRIA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDGE LENGTH; FITNESS FUNCTIONS; TERRAIN FEATURES; VIDEO GAME;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOLOGY; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; LANDFORMS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 79959386476     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2010.5586032     Document Type: Conference Paper

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