Comments on: Face Maker: Artificial selection experiment online

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:40:10 +0000

The problem is that no "new" face is going to win a contest against any of the "old" faces for a very long time.

Why not pit *only* the new faces against each other until they look as realistic as the old ones, and then enter them in direct competition with the old ones and see how they interact?

In the meantime, you're wasting three quarters of everyone's clicks. At least give us the option to choose to exclude the old ones! Please.

By: bitbutter

bitbutter — Sun, 04 May 2008 19:45:40 +0000

"They're still barely changing. If you can select from only the new population they'll evolve twice as quickly."

One aim of the experiment was to see how closely the images will come to resemble faces, so the older populations will stay, alongside the newer ones.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:56:10 +0000

They're still barely changing. If you can select from only the new population they'll evolve twice as quickly.

By: bitbutter

bitbutter — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:10:21 +0000

The old faces are changing at the same rate as the new ones. There is more variety in the new populations because no face has yet had chance to dominate them. If and when traffic to the site picks up again in the future I might add an option to select which population you want to vote on.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:53:11 +0000

Can you make an option to only select faces from the new population? It's a bit of a waste of time selecting from the old population. They're barely changing.

By: bitbutter

bitbutter — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:42:50 +0000

Yes exactly. Members from different populations aren't in competition with each other.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:35:32 +0000

Actually cancel that. It's obvious that the populations are living in different places!

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:34:09 +0000

Won't the new ones just die out immediately since there are more adapted species already in existence?

By: bitbutter

bitbutter — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:32:44 +0000

Two new face populations have been added. You can expect to see pairs of abstract explosions again amongst the more developed faces.

By: Clint

Clint — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:33:29 +0000

Anyone else noticing there are a few tuxedos evolving into the mix. Your face subject is getting a little more sophisticated, hehe…