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SBArt 4.3.9 for MacOS X was released on April 7, 2012.

SBART developed by Tatsuo Unemi is a design support tool to create an interesting 2D CG image based on artificial selection, which was originally proposed as Artificial Evolution by Mr. Karl Sims.

Version 4 is a full revision of the previous version 3, that takes advantage of graphic processor unit by compiling each genotype into a program of Core Image Kernel language. This innovation enabled breeding of abstract movies in realtime.

Links: Extra project Phylogeny | Extra project Breeding on Site | SBArt4 the Daily Movies.

Publication

Tatsuo Unemi: SBArt4 as Automatic Art and Live Performance Tool, in C. Soddu ed. Proceedings of the 14th Generative Art Conference, pp. 436-447, December 4-7, Rome, Italy, 2011. PDF file is Here. Video of live performance is Here.
Tatsuo Unemi: SBArt4 - Breeding and Evolving Abstract Images and Animations, Poster presentation in International Symposium on Computational Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualization, and Imaging, August 5-7, Vancouver, Canada, 2011. PDF file of extended abstract is here. JPEG file of poster is here.
Tatsuo Unemi: A Breeding Tool for Abstract Animations and Its Applications, in C. Soddu ed. Proceedings of the 13th Generative Art Conference, pp. 452-458, December 14-17, Milan, Italy, 2010. PDF file is Here.
Tatsuo Unemi: SBArt4 - Breeding Abstract Animations in Realtime, Proceedings of the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2010 - IEEE CEC 2010), pp. 4004-4009, July 18-23, Barcelona, Spain, 2010. PDF file is Here.

Download

Click here to download and try it! Version 4.3.9 is valid until September 30, 2012. A new version will be released before the expiration. Previous versions, 4.3.8 is here, 4.3.7 is here and 4.3.6 is here.
This is a type of shareware. You can use it freely, but the following functionalities are restricted.

Saves the genotypes of in a field window into a file.
Saves the image and the movie into a file.
Prints the image in a zooming window.
Customizes the caption on a zoomed image.
Displays the image on full screen.
Copies the compiled code into the pasteboard.

Please make user registration and get your key to eliminate these restrictions. The key is valid for the next version too. The cost is $20 USD.

System requirment

Intel 64bit CPU and MacOS X 10.6 or 10.7 is required to run SBArt4. A graphic processor of ATI, NVIDIA or Intel HD Graphics is required. Intel GMA graphics hardware is not supported.

Working with Quartz Composer

You can export your bred gene to a built-in patch named Core Image Filter of Quartz Composer, a powerful graphical programing environment for visual effects in MacOS X, by copying the compiled code of genotype to the clipboard and pasting it to the settings in the patch's inspector. You can use it to make your own screen saver. The disk image downloadable from the above link includes sample composition files.