Exact Aesthetics

Computational appraisal of visual forms

Aesthetic theory
- Historical concepts of aesthetic judgement
- Proportion, symmetry, unity, variety
- New media aesthetics
Computational aesthetics
- Algorithms of design and criticism
- Aesthetic analysis and synthesis models
- Construction, evocation & interpretation
Beauty of form
- Order and complexity
- Birkhoff’s aesthetic measure
Beauty of structure
- Point and line to plane
- Pattern measure
Beauty of message
- Reception and understanding
- Aesthetic information theory