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A white paper out of USC outlines the creation of an adaptive gaming environment using L-systems and genetic algorithms. Its not clear how much of this working yet, and its not clear how much of this is new. Although commercial coders don't usually reveal their underlying technique, certainly projects like Spore use techniques at least as effective as those outlined here. Nonetheless, looking under the hood is valuable, and if nothing else, the author has chosen a name that captures bloggers' attention. (via occult design)