Evolving Art using Measures for Symmetry, Compositional Balance and Liveliness

Eelco den Heijer

2012

Abstract

In this paper we present our research into the unsupervised evolution of aesthetically pleasing images using measures for symmetry, compositional balance and liveliness. We evolve images without human aesthetic evaluation, and use measures for symmetry, compositional balance and liveliness as fitness functions. Our symmetry measure calculates the difference in intensity of opposing pixels around one or more axes. Our measure of compositional balance calculates the similarity between two parts of an image using a color image distance function. Using the latter measure, we are able to evolve images that show a notion of ‘balance’ but are not necessarily symmetrical. Our measure for liveliness uses the entropy of the intensity of the pixels of the image. We performed a number of experiments in which we evolved aesthetically pleasing images using the aesthetic measures, in order to evaluate the effect of each fitness function on the resulting images. We also performed an experiment using a combination of aesthetic measures using a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm (NSGA-II).

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

den Heijer E. (2012). Evolving Art using Measures for Symmetry, Compositional Balance and Liveliness . In Proceedings of the 4th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 1: ECTA, (IJCCI 2012) ISBN 978-989-8565-33-4, pages 52-61. DOI: 10.5220/0004149600520061

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ecta12,
author={Eelco den Heijer},
title={Evolving Art using Measures for Symmetry, Compositional Balance and Liveliness},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 1: ECTA, (IJCCI 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={52-61},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004149600520061},
isbn={978-989-8565-33-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 1: ECTA, (IJCCI 2012)
TI - Evolving Art using Measures for Symmetry, Compositional Balance and Liveliness
SN - 978-989-8565-33-4
AU - den Heijer E.
PY - 2012
SP - 52
EP - 61
DO - 10.5220/0004149600520061