Galapagos was a great improvement, when it became available natively within Grasshopper. However I couldn’t find time to examine it until recently. This examination gave me a ideas on algorithmic thinking, tool making and tool using. The first experimentation shown below, (file here: [GHX: 0.8.0066]) tries to solve equilateral triangulation, based on Delaunay method. Galapagos has two different solvers, named “simulated annealing solver” and “evolutionary solver” shown respectively below. Both of them are trying to reach to a fitness value defined by the user. You may enter “Maximize”, “Minimize” or any numeric value to this input. It is important to formulate this value according to your design intentions. There are limited explanation links from the component inside. But it seems they are not enough.
I hope you may find this beginning useful if you are also trying to “solve” the evolutionary solver.
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In a sense evolutionary simulations replace design, since artists can use this software to breed new forms rather than specifically design them. This is basically correct but, as I argue below, there is a part of the process in which deliberate design is still a crucial component.
De Landa, Manuel
The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lack artifice and therefore intelligence.
Baudrillard, Jean
