Faculty: Una-May O'Reilly,
                Peter Testa (formerly of MIT, School of Architecture, now Testa Associates, California),
                Devyn Weiser, Testa Associates.
Alumni Student: Martin Hemberg, now at Imperial College London and tutor at Architectural Association, London, U.K.
Status: Genr8 software has been released. It is available at the Genr8 web site.
Opportunities: Development of Genr8 is completed.

Genr8

Genr8 is a digital-surface design tool that provides architects with access to creative surface design. The technical power beneath Genr8 is twofold: evolutionary search and HEMLS (Hemberg Extended Map L-Systems). A HEMLS, the generative process, is interpreted by GENR8 to generate a surface. GENR8 uses evolutionary search to discover its own HEMLS that adaptively evolve towards surfaces with features the user has specified. Genr8 is more completely documented with its own project pages that include presentations, posters, software, an FAQ and a more extensive publication list.

Selected Publications:

[1] M. Hemberg and U.M. O'Reilly, Extending Grammatical Evolution to Evolve Digital Surfaces with Genr8, Genetic Programming 7th European Conference on Genetic Programming - EuroGP 2004, LNCS, Vol. 3003, pp. 299-308, 2004.

[2] U.M. O'Reilly, M. Hemberg, and A. Menges, Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life in Architecture, Architectural Design: Special Issue on Emergence , June 2004.

[3] Martin Hemberg and U. M. O'Reilly. Integrating Generative Growth and Evolutionary Computation for Form Exploration, in submission to Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, Special issue on generative design