Evolving pixel shaders for the prototype video game subversion

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Howlett, A., Colton, S., Browne, C.: Evolving pixel shaders for the prototype video game subversion. In: Proceedings of the AI and Games Symposium (AISB 2010) (2010)

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Abstract

Pixel shaders can be used to create a variety of visual effects in 3D environments, far more efficiently than if produced using the standard graphics pipeline. For such efficiency reasons, pixel shaders are commonly used in video game rendering, to add artistic or other visual effects. We investigate the automated creation of novel shader programs for rendering scenes in the Subversion virtual game world, with a view to providing the player with a visually richer and more diverse 3D environment. We show how shader programs based on the OpenGL shading language may be represented in a hierarchical tree form. This representation admits an evolutionary approach to shader creation, and we show how the application of genetic programming techniques can lead to the evolution of new and interesting shaders. We harness this for an approach where the user supplies details of a fitness function for the overall look of the city environment. We experimented with a number of different fitness function setups in order to produce some preliminary results about this approach. While generally successful in the creation of novel and visually interesting shading effects with little effort, we find some drawbacks to the approach and suggest methods for improvement.

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@InProceedings{Howlett:2010:AISB,
 author = "Andrew Howlett and Simon Colton and Cameron Browne",
 title = "Evolving Pixel Shaders for the Prototype Video Game Subversion",
 booktitle = "The Thirty Sixth Annual Convention of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB'10)",
 year = "2010",
 address = "De Montfort University, Leicester, UK",
 month = "30th " # mar,
 note = "AI \& Games Symposium",
 keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, GPU, OpenGL, GLSL",
 URL = "http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~sgc/papers/howlett_aisb10.pdf http://de.evo-art.org/index.php?title=Evolving_pixel_shaders_for_the_prototype_video_game_subversion",
 size = "6 pages",
}

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