Electric Sheep
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Electric Sheep
About:
Electric Sheep is a 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. This algorithm is 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, Electric Sheep has been able to benefit from collection of sources
- Reusing and Remixing
The process of voting for Sheeps you like and don't like
Creative Commons license
- Crediting usage of Sheeps (Draves & "Electric Sheep)
