Computational Esthetics
Scha, R., Bod, R.: Computationele Esthetica. In: Informatie en Informatiebeleid 11(1), 54–63 (1993), English translation: Computational Esthetics
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Scha, R., Bod, R.: Computationele Esthetica. In: Informatie en Informatiebeleid 11(1), 54–63 (1993), English translation: Computational Esthetics
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Formal theories which compute the "beauty coefficient" of visual patterns, fail to do justice to the complexity of the esthetic experience. These "computational esthetic" models do, however, embody some notions that are needed to build formal models of human perceptual processes -- and these, in their turn, must be the basis of any empirically adequate esthetic theory.
Though the esthetic experience remains one of the most enigmatic side-effects of human perception, several mathematical models have been proposed which assign to visual patterns a "beauty coefficient" -- a number that is intended to correlate with the degree of esthetic pleasure the pattern evokes. Such theories seem a little naive, because they focus on a quantitative and absolute beauty judgment. They disregard the qualitative aspects of specific esthetic experiences, and do not account for the context-dependence and variability of beauty-judgments. It is interesting, nevertheless, to look at the operation of these excessively simplistic beauty calculations; if we integrate them with other ideas from perceptual psychology and computational linguistics, they may in fact constitute a starting point for the development of more adequate formal models.
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