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Evolving Brick structures

Our representation to evolve Lego structures borrows the tree mutation and crossover operators from genetic programming (GP) [85]. We implemented tree representations of 2D and 3D Lego structures. Each node of the tree represents a brick and has a size parameter, indicating the size of the brick, and a list of descendants, which are new bricks physically attached to the parent. Each descendant node has positional parameters that specify the position of the new brick relative to the parent.



 

Pablo Funes
2001-05-08