tags:: [[+Post]] Created: **Wednesday, October 15, 2025** --- ### Academics This is where notes about academic work I've done goes. For now, it will just be a space for links about papers etc. You can visit [my Google Scholar profile](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=o0dEXi0AAAAJ&hl=en) for more up to date stuff In general my academic work centers around [ALife (artificial life)](https://alife.org/) and reinforcement learning with a focus on human and AI co-creation. ## Papers - [[Paper - Mixed-Initiative Level Design with RL Brush]] - [[Paper - Growing MIDI Music Files Using Convolutional Cellular Automata]] ## Process I had the opportunity to take [Kathleen McDermott's](https://www.kthartic.com/) Prototyping and Ideation class while I was doing my master's at NYU and part of her class involved keeping a kind of creative journal where we documented our "process" through a project called "Constant I/O" with daily or weekly posts and sketch journal entries. You can see all of the original posts at [https://classic.omardelarosa.com/tags/process/](https://classic.omardelarosa.com/tags/process/)and a few selected ones have been moved over to the [[/process]] section: - [[Constant IO Blend Trees and Animations]] - [[Process 1 Organizing Spritesheets]] - [[Sketchbook | More Monsters | Week 11]]