It is possible and intended to handle the installation as flexible as a musical instrument, consisting of an image and a sonic component. Observation of the system's behavior during exhibitions has shown its ability to respond to users' varying approaches, playing styles, and temperaments in a differentiated and recognizable way. The software runs on an SGI computer for realtime animation of the organic as well as for creation of the images required for the web pages. A web server running on that machine creates mutations on the genom and sends them with related images back to web users. A real time application cares for a life like animation of the object and reacts on user actions.
Users interact with an interface box.
The interface's eight sliders are used to manipulate the object's dynamic parameters and the camera position. Three additional buttons are used to trigger mutations. A genom is composed of components each of which define a single structural or shape property of the organic. There are components which describe the geometry of a single limb and components which arrange limbs according to specified algorithms. There is a predefined set of components constituting the gene pool out of which the actual genom is assembled by random.