Exact Aesthetics

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

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Algorithmic op-art

Algorithmic Op Art

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