Paul Solt
Artwork Evolution, my first iOS App is now available on the App Store for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. It allows you to create complex abstract art with the touch of a finger. You can breed images together to create new images.
If you’re working with Objective-C/C++ (i.e. mixing both languages) in an iPhone/Mac application you may come across some strange errors in the build process due to a configuration issue.
error: bits/c++config.h: No such file or directory
One of my projects, Texture Evolution was a Mac application that referenced a C++ Mac library. About 6 months [...]
Here’s the first part of a multi-part iPhone Unit Testing Series. (Revised 11-9-10)
How comfortable are you on a bike without a helmet? Writing code without tests is like riding a bike without a helmet. You might feel free and indestructible for now, but one day you’ll fall [...]
Edited 8/24/11: Fixed a bug with alpha transparency not being preserved. Thanks for the tip Scott! Updated the gist and github project to test transparent images.
Edited 12/13/10: Updated the code on github/gist to fix static analyzer warnings. Changed a function name to conform to the Apple standard.
When I [...]
In 2009 I took a Computer Animation course at @RIT I created an object-oriented C++ wrapper for GLUT. The idea was to create a set of classes that could be reused for each of the separate project submissions. The main class wraps around the GLUT C-style functions and provides a class that can be inherited [...]
I presented at BarCamp #5 Rochester http://barcamproc.org/ at RIT on my ArtworkEvolution project. Here are my presentation slides.
I evolved images during the presentation and these are some of the results:
For my Genetic Algorithms class I decided to work based on the work of Karl Sims. I have built a system that can evolve images based on “user natural selection” over a period of time.
The user plays god and can select those images that will live and die to produce new images. [...]
Artwork Evolution
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