TY - CHAP U1 - Konferenzveröffentlichung A1 - Gaier, Adam T1 - Evolutionary Design via Indirect Encoding of Non-Uniform Rational Basis Splines T2 - Esparcia-Alcázar, Silva et al. (Eds.): GECCO Companion '15. Proceedings of the Companion Publication of the 2015 on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. 15, July 11 - 15, 2015, Madrid, Spain N2 - A novel approach to produce 2D designs by adapting the HyperNEAT algorithm to evolve non-uniform rational basis splines (NURBS) is presented. This representation is proposed as an alternative to previous pixel-based approaches primarily motivated by aesthetic interests, and not designed for optimization tasks. This spline representation outperforms previous pixel-based approaches on target matching tasks, performing well even in matching irregular target shapes. In addition to improved evolvability in the face of a well defined fitness metric, a NURBS representation has the added virtues of being continuous rather than discrete, as well as being intuitive and easily modified by graphic and industrial designers. KW - Compositional Pattern Producing Networks KW - Design Optimization KW - HyperNEAT KW - Indirect Encodings KW - NURBS SN - 978-1-4503-3488-4 SB - 978-1-4503-3488-4 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1145/2739482.2768478 DO - https://doi.org/10.1145/2739482.2768478 SP - 1197 EP - 1200 PB - ACM ER -