Marc Ebner is currently a lecturer at the Department of Computer Science, Programming Languages and Programming Methodology, University of Würzburg, Germany. He has been at the university since 1999, recently having completed his habilitation dissertation, on which this book is based. He teaches courses on computer graphics and virtual reality and his research interests are in colour constancy, computer vision, self-reproducing programs, neutral networks, and evolutionary algorithms. Previous to this post, he has gained qualifications from Stuttgart University, New York University and Tubingen University. To date, he has authored 8 published journal articles, 29 refereed conference papers.