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Aesthetically Evolved Virtual Pets
- Leonardo
- The MIT Press
- Volume 34, Number 4, August 2001
- pp. 313-316
- Article
- Additional Information
The author applies aesthetic, emotional and empathetic selection to a derivative of Karl Sims's Evolved Virtual Creatures. The resulting Creatures can be beautiful or strange and provoke strong reactions in human observers. The author posits that it may therefore be possible to evolve virtual pets to which humans can form strong emotional bonds.