Human creativity typically includes a self-critical aspect that guides innovation towards a
productive end. This chapter offers a brief history of, and outlook for, computational aesthetic …

Art is the Queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the
world. Leonardo da Vinci Artistic behavior is one of the most valued qualities of the human …

The connection between aesthetics and numbers dates back to pre-Socratic times.
Pythagoras, Plato, and Aristotle worked on quantitative expressions of proportion and …

This chapter presents an introduction to the different artistic design domains that make use
of interactive evolutionary design approaches, the techniques they use, and many of the …

A novel approach to the production of evolutionary art is presented. This approach is based
on the promotion of an arms race between an adaptive classifier and an evolutionary …

We present a corpus-based hybrid approach to music analysis and composition, which
incorporates statistical, connectionist, and evolutionary components. Our framework …

One of the general aims of evolutionary art research is to build a computer system capable
of creating interesting, beautiful, or creative results, including images, videos, animations …

Measures aimed to improve the diversity of images and image features in evolutionary art
help to direct search toward more novel and creative parts of the artistic search domain. To …

In recent years, the search for computational systems that classify images based on
aesthetic properties has gained momentum. Such systems have a wide range of potential …

This study is aimed at exploring the ability of complexity-based metrics to distinguish
between paintings and photographs. The proposed features resort to edge detection …