Theo Jansen still at it with full force... (life goals!)

Strandbeest evolution 2025
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ANhA94ZqnEQ

...and obligatory re-sharing of some pics of our joint generative design workshop in 2013, incl. Theo's graveyard of older Strandbeests and mechanisms:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/toxi/albums/72157633305609130/

Also remembering that already back then he was very worried about the manufacturer discontinuing the specific pipes used as raw materials for these creatures and therefore bought several kilometers of piping as reserve in advance, to future proof his project and not having to potentially recalculate/recalibrate all the designs...

#TheoJansen #Strandbeest #KineticArt #GenerativeArt #GeneticAlgorithm

I wonder why genetic programming so often uses a Lisp-inspired paradigm instead of a Forth-inspired one. They are both extremely simple to implement, but Forth has the advantage of being expressible as a linear sequence, so standard genetic algorithm operators can be used on it. If you find Lisp syntax more readable, it would be easy to translate, since they are both inherently nested.

#GeneticProgramming
#GeneticAlgorithm
#Lisp
#Forth

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https://isaacl.dev/gsm

We’ve just reached midterm at Google Summer of Code 2025.
👉 Check out what our Google Summer of Code students have accomplished so far.

Pranjal Goyal has been developing a lean migration strategy for complex codebases in the #KomMonitor web client.
https://blog.52north.org/2025/07/11/developing-the-lean-migration-strategy-for-complex-codebases/

Shreyas Ranganatha has been working on enhancing the #WeatherRoutingTool’s #geneticalgorithm
https://blog.52north.org/2025/07/18/enhancing-the-weatherroutingtools-genetic-algorithm/

#GSoC2025 #leanstrategy #softwarearchitecture #routeoptimization #MariData