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Work · December 23, 2011

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Beauty Contest for Virtual Life - Digital Art Project (lurepet.com)

Hi, looking for your feedback on my first public project. The Idea: Every lurepet (big picture) that you see on the site has some "genes" and is drawn according to them. After the best lurepets are selected they can be bred to make children looking like their parents. This is going to be repeated to create more and more beautiful lurepets. And of course the reason to vote is to save the future humanity that is attacked by evil robots which has the only flaw - insane obsession with lurepets :) Implementation: The drawing logic which is 99% of all the logic, is written in Clojure. I'm very…

Beauty Contest for Virtual Life - Digital Art Project (lurepet.com) launched on December 23, 2011 with 10 votes, #56 of 254 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches.

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Beauty Contest for Virtual Life is a digital art project where algorithmic creatures called lurepets are generated based on genetic parameters and displayed for voting. Users select their favorite designs, and the top-rated lurepets can be bred together to produce offspring that inherit traits from their parents. This process repeats iteratively to evolve increasingly beautiful creatures. The drawing system is built in Clojure, with the web interface using static files served through Cloudflare.

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Hi, looking for your feedback on my first public project. The Idea: Every lurepet (big picture) that you see on the site has some "genes" and is drawn according to them. After the best lurepets are selected they can be bred to make children looking like their parents. This is going to be repeated to create more and…

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