[eu-gene] Generative or not? cubo23

[rob at robmyers.org]

Quoting Adrian Ward <adrian at signwave.co.uk>:

> On 21 Feb 2006, at 09:38 am, rob at robmyers.org wrote:
>> It would probably make a piece about conses.
>
> What's wrong with that?

[Sound of penny dropping.]

So how would a program make an image of a cons *for itself*. That is an 
"image"
to itself, not an SVG illustration for humans?

> If you were really worried about this, you could code up other meta- 
> programs that appreciated the conses piece. And then put them  
> together in a subdirectory called "Art Gallery".

They'd be algorithmic critics (http://www.algorithmicaesthetics.org/). I did a
toy version of this with "ae":

http://www.robmyers.org/weblog/2004/02/06/ae-in-progress/

- Rob.