Ways of Seeing: Visualization of Artificial Life Environments
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Jon McCormack and Alan Dorin: Ways of Seeing: Visualization of Artificial Life Environments. Workshop Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (Artificial Life VIII - Workshops), NSW, Australia, 10 December 2002, University of New South Wales, NSW, Australia, ISBN: 0-7317-0509-2, pp 155-162.
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This paper investigates the significance of cultural assump- tions associated with the methodology and epistemology of visualization in simulations. Starting with ideas from art theory on ‘ways of seeing’ in the context of painting, we look at the concepts of truth and representation in the visual image. Example images on the subject of evolution and arti- ficial life are examined to reveal the assumptions and im- plicit knowledge used by the creators and viewers. We use examples of visualization from other cultures to clarify the means by which knowledge influences conventions in repre- sentation, and how alternate modes of visual representation may offer new insights for visualization of artificial life sys- tems.
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