City In A Bottle

City In a Bottle is an interactive project bordering between art, science and games, a virtual ecosystem of plants and insects. The game world mechanics are based on the principles of emergence and evolution by natural selection. Complex social behaviour and new life forms will evolve by themselves as the game progresses. The game engine is an open source, cross-platform version of NodeBox optimized for hardware-accelerated image processing, "NodeBox for OpenGL" a NodeBox-spinoff.



It is a very interesting project developed in a small interdisciplinary team of artists, musicians and computer scientists:
Champ d'Action (Belgium-based ensemble for contemporary classical music). Scientific advisor is Johan Gielis (author of the superformula, first published in the March 2003 American Journal of Botany). People working on City In A Bottle: Nicolas Marinus (project manager), Ludivine Lechat (visual artist), Tim Vets (Champ d'Action, musician), Frederik De Bleser, Tom De Smedt. Via:Tim Vets

More about the project via Ludivine Lechat and some interesting parts from behind the scenes such as a background scenery trough the Procedural architecture.



A moodboard explaining the basic feel of the City In A Bottle environment.