On Birkhoff’s Aesthetic Measure of Vases
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Reference
Staudek, T.: On Birkhoff’s Aesthetic Measure of Vases. Technical Report:FIMU–RS–99–06. Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University (1999).
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http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.42.1231
Abstract
Report discusses contribution of Birkhoff's aesthetic measure to formal aesthetic evaluation of regular geometrical objects, namely Chinese vases. Characteristics of aesthetic measure function are considered in order to verify correctness of such application and extended Birkhoff's aesthetic measure is then introduced. Keywords : exact (numerical) aesthetics, Birkhoff's aesthetic measure, extended Birkhoff's aesthetic measure of vases 1 Introduction Art and manufacture of aesthetic criteria ful\Thetalling artifacts accompany the humankind from time immemorial. Pristine ritual nature of an artistic expression evolved into premeditated production and admiration of aesthetic, sensually engaging artifacts that have endured in a form of material or immaterial artistic creations up to the present days. For each historical period and prevailing artistic movement we can observe certain binding rules for assessing #beauty# or #artistic value#. These rules have varied (often startlingl...
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Used References
1. George D. Birkhoff. Aesthetic Measure. Cambridge Massachusetts’ University Press, 1933.
2. Sabina Denkowska, Ewa J. Grabska, Katarzyna Marek. Application of Birkhoff’s aes- thetic measure to computer aided design of vases. Machine GRAPHICS & VISION, 7(1/2):69–75, 1994.
3. Martin Dobˇs ́ık. Shape warping by grid deformation (in Czech). Master’s thesis, Technical University of Brno, FEI, Brno, 1997.
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