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== Electric Sheep==
 
== Electric Sheep==
 
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Electric Sheep is a great platform for digital artists to share their work! However, although we may be familiar with digital art in the print form, Electric Sheep takes digital and turns them into "sheep": abstract animations from artwork that is submitted.
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===About:===
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Electric Sheep is a great platform for digital artists to share their work. Although people may be familiar with digital art in the print form, Electric Sheep takes digital print artwork and turns them into "sheep": abstract animations from artwork that is submitted.
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Founded in 1999 by software artist[http://scottdraves.com/ Scott Draves], Draves describes his "sheep" as artificial life.  In his portfolio, Draves starts off this description as "...it is software that recreates the biological phenomena of evolution and reproduction though mathematics. The system is made up of man and machine, a cyborg mind with 450,000 participant computers and people all over the Internet."  How all the animations are created is through the "Flame Algorithm", which Draves created in 1992.  to merge submitted digital artwork together.  This is what takes the still images and creates them into animations. 
  
[http://scottdraves.com/ Scott Draves], software artist and founder of Electric Sheep describes his "sheep" as artificial life.  In his portfolio, Draves describes it as "...it is software that recreates the biological phenomena of evolution and reproduction though mathematics. The system is made up of man and machine, a cyborg mind with 450,000 participant computers and people all over the Internet." 
 
  
Draves uses his "Flame Algorithm", which he created in 1992, to merge submitted digital artwork together.  This is what takes the still images and creates them into animations. 
 
  
  

Revision as of 19:36, 12 October 2012

Electric Sheep

Kuan-Yu Hsiao

About:

Electric Sheep is a great platform for digital artists to share their work. Although people may be familiar with digital art in the print form, Electric Sheep takes digital print artwork and turns them into "sheep": abstract animations from artwork that is submitted.

Founded in 1999 by software artistScott Draves, Draves describes his "sheep" as artificial life. In his portfolio, Draves starts off this description as "...it is software that recreates the biological phenomena of evolution and reproduction though mathematics. The system is made up of man and machine, a cyborg mind with 450,000 participant computers and people all over the Internet." How all the animations are created is through the "Flame Algorithm", which Draves created in 1992. to merge submitted digital artwork together. This is what takes the still images and creates them into animations.



Ethical Topics of Discussion:

Open Source

With open source code, which is what Electric Sheep is operated on

On the Website it has a collection of sources

Creative Commons license

The process of voting for Sheeps you like and don't like

Creative Commons license

  • Crediting usage of Sheeps (Draves & "Electric Sheep)


--Kyhsiao (talk) 15:08, 12 October 2012 (EDT)Kuan-Yu Hsiao