UnrealArt: gaming for art’s sake

Alison Mealy, a UK artist and graduate student, has harnessed the bots of UT2004 to create art - http://www.unrealart.co.uk/. In this fascinating endeavour, bot paths are placed for a DM map and over the duration of a 25-30 minute game, the positions and deaths of the bots are recorded very second. The coordinates are then used to generate a large postscript image, with some interesting results - 1 and 2. The images represent a complex interaction between Alison’s placement of the paths and the artificial intelligence of the UT2004 bots.