The EDGE of Chaos

The EDGE of Chaos is a toolkit that allows the user to explore, design, grow, and evolve lifelike digital organisms in full 3D. The organism lives in the interface, sprouted from a growth system controlled by a genome. The toolkit has four tools. The explore tool allows the user to automate the search for candidate genes. The design tool is used to create, edit, or randomize the genomes of organisms. The evolve tool is a user-guided system where complexity accumulates over the generations in a way that mimics natural evolution. The grow tool is used to grow extra features like veins or hair onto the organism, to assign lifelike custom-built generative shaders, and to export the resulting image or 3d-object.

To run the toolkit you will need to download and install Houdini by SideFX first