Evolving Urban Landscapes

Jorge Santos, Rafael Murta, João Miguel Cunha, Sérgio M. Rebelo, Tiago Martins, Pedro Martins

Abstract: The depiction of a city’s facade can have various purposes, from purely decorative use to documentation for future restoration. This representation is often a manual and time-consuming process. This paper describes the co-creative system Evolving Urban Landscapes, which uses evolutionary computation to produce images that represent the landscape of an input city. In order to evaluate the creativity of the system, we conducted a study with 23 users. The results show that the system we created can be considered creative and, above all, that it generates diverse results, allowing the users to evolve landscapes according to their tastes.