Many creatures recognize certain area's of their species bodies and use these to differentiate eachother. We use faces, Whales use flukes, etc. I know of many race concepts involving this, including one Spore race that focuses on a complex system of back-plates. I ask this because, if we can get the game to identify these places, then presumably we could actually have, to a limited degree, procedural art.

Concidering the decoration editor, we could input a few aspects, like major senses, and that create Statues, releifs, painting, tapestries and so on, actually depicting certain organisms. These would be very limited, but having them at all would greatly improve the explorative nature of gameplay.

Any thoughts? Is this possible at all?

I can't see how the game would recognize these areas of importance without the player defining them, but that's the only major roadblock I can think of right now.

Still, there are intensely complex and highly variable parts of any Earth species that aren't necessarily the place where art would place its focus. The human hand might look as variable and complicated as the human face to such an algorithm, and I don't see any way around that.

let's just do what you said earlier, and have the player define it.

if it's computer generated, then how could we be unhappy with the results? if it isn't our creature, that is.

let me rephrase that. if everything else we see is computer generated, everything will be random, and unable to be controlled by us. so there could be many things we are unhappy with.