TY - GEN
T1 - Sentient world
T2 - 2nd International Conference on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design, EvoMUSART 2013
AU - Liapis, Antonios
AU - Yannakakis, Georgios N.
AU - Togelius, Julian
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - This paper presents a first step towards a computer-aided design tool for the creation of game maps. The tool, named Sentient World, allows the designer to draw a rough terrain sketch, adding extra levels of detail through stochastic and gradient search. Novelty search generates a number of dissimilar artificial neural networks that are trained to approximate a designer's sketch and provide maps of higher resolution back to the designer. As the procedurally generated maps are presented to the designer (to accept, reject, or edit) the terrain sketches are iteratively refined into complete high resolution maps which may diverge from initial designer concepts. Results obtained on a number of test maps show that novelty search is beneficial for introducing divergent content to the designer without reducing the speed of iterative map refinement.
AB - This paper presents a first step towards a computer-aided design tool for the creation of game maps. The tool, named Sentient World, allows the designer to draw a rough terrain sketch, adding extra levels of detail through stochastic and gradient search. Novelty search generates a number of dissimilar artificial neural networks that are trained to approximate a designer's sketch and provide maps of higher resolution back to the designer. As the procedurally generated maps are presented to the designer (to accept, reject, or edit) the terrain sketches are iteratively refined into complete high resolution maps which may diverge from initial designer concepts. Results obtained on a number of test maps show that novelty search is beneficial for introducing divergent content to the designer without reducing the speed of iterative map refinement.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-36955-1_16
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-36955-1_16
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84875105119
SN - 9783642369544
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 180
EP - 191
BT - Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design - Second International Conference, EvoMUSART 2013, Proceedings
Y2 - 3 April 2013 through 5 April 2013
ER -