People and Computers Agree on the Complexity of Small Art

Year: 2014 Authors: Peter Boothe; Jonathan Langke

Core claim

For small digital artworks, human judgments of visual complexity and computer-derived formula complexity largely agree.

Topics

visual complexity, Kolmogorov complexity, pairwise comparison

Domains

complexity theory, combinatorics, Boolean functions, digital art, visual perception, computational aesthetics

Methods

formula enumeration, human comparison survey, strength rating

Media

black-and-white pixel grids, 3x3 artworks, digital images

Source status

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