Imogene:

Imogene is a Windows 3.1 shareware program which generates pretty images using GENETIC PROGRAMMING. The program displays GENERATIONs of 9 images, each generated using a formula applied to each pixel. (The formulae are initially randomly computed). You can then select those images you prefer. In the next generation, the nine images are generated by combining and mutating the formulae for the most-preferred images in the previous generation. The result is a SIMULATION of natural SELECTION in which images evolve toward your aesthetic preferences.

Imogene supports different color maps, palette animation, saving images to .BMP files, changing the wallpaper to nice images, printing images, and several other features. Imogene works only in 256 color mode and requires a floating point coprocessor and a 386 or better CPU.

Imogene is based on work originally done by Karl Sims at (ex-)Thinking Machines for the CM-2 massively parallel computer - but you can use it on your PC. You can get Imogene from: http://www.aracnet.com/~wwir/software.html

Contact: Harley Davis, ILOG S.A., 2 Avenue Gallini, BP 85, 94253 Gentilly Cedex, France. tel: +33 1 46 63 66 66 <davis@ilog.fr>