人工生命による情報空間  [in Japanese] Artistic 3D Information Space by Using ARTIFICIAL LIFE  [in Japanese]

コンピュータグラフィックスによる人工生命(Artifical Life)のモデルを用いた3次元情報空間の新しい生成手法について述べる。人工生命の基礎となるのがセルであり, これまで2次元のパターンについてのみ述べられてきた。しかし3次元の動的空間にまで広げた研究がなされていなかった。本稿ではセルの改良理論により, ボリュームのあるダイナミックな空間を生成する新しい3次元セルの画像生成手法を提示する。最初にエコロジーモデルの応用による基礎研究について述べ, 次に実際にコンピュータグラフィックスで生成した3次元動画像を人工生命への応用の立場から考察する。

The history of two-dimensional cell is long. Nevertheless, the research of three-dimensional cell visualization have been depressed and undeveloped. So I would like to take it as an artistic technique. I would like to begin with the aspect of non-linear first of all. For example, it is possible that a cell would reacts to the second impulse even if it didn't to the first one. Those impulses would cause facilitation and inhibition together, but if the amount of those impulses exceed a threshold, the cell would react all of a sudden. This pulling-together phenomenon shows a very interesting result. For example, the cell would blink or vibrate by that interaction of faciitation and inhibition. This emergent reaction can be applied as plastic art. The more important thing is that you can find the aspect of game in the phenomenon. The concept of this kind of stategy can be applied to make a new game of plastic art. It is important to prove the organized system which cause the phenomenon by a simulation. It will be more helpful if you imagine a certain kind of system that process the input data and output the result by the preset rule. If we give a standard of decision to the rule, it would develop its react gradually. Let's assume it as a learning system. The purpose of this simulation is to see that the cell duplicates itself in the next generation by the estimation of the boundary of the cell.