Credits

Inspiration

GenoCode is inspired by DancerDNA (Cyberation, published by Notting Hill Publishing, 1999), a program that evolved creatures which danced to music. Its creature language, gene ranges, breeding and morphing, and music-driven dance were the starting point for GenoCode. No DancerDNA files or code are included in this project. The starter creatures and dance styles that were inspired by DancerDNA's are rewritten from scratch in GenoCode, and each one names the original it was inspired by.

GenoCode also grows out of Fantastic Avian Creatures, an earlier project by GenoCode's author. Its texture generator (the pattern kinds, colour schemes, finishes and mixes) is ported in packages/render.

Other influences

• William Latham and Stephen Todd, FormGrow and Mutator: forms built from a fixed grammar whose parameters are genes, and animation by interpolating genes.
• Karl Sims, Genetic Images and Galápagos: genomes that can grow.
• Scott Draves, Electric Sheep: an open-source, music-reactive, community-driven evolutionary artwork.
• Steven Rooke: seeding new work with genomes that have already been evolved.
• Matthew Lewis, Evolutionary Visual Art and Design: practical techniques for evolutionary design tools.
• Mitchell Whitelaw, Metacreation: Art and Artificial Life (MIT Press, 2004), and the works it discusses, including Mutagen, Life Spacies, TechnoSphere, Eden and Breed.