Interactive Design of Random Aesthetic Abstract Textures by Composition Principles

Abstract

The automatic synthesis of abstract textures is, to some extent, feasible. As evidenced by abstract art theoreticians, one can think of an abstract picture as a tree of elementary shapes interacting according to a short list of compositional laws such as occlusion, exclusion and bordering, and by rendering rules such as transparency, tessellation and color selection. Randomizing the shape generator and the composition and rendering laws yields an algorithm generating random abstract textures. We have designed a user-friendly online tool that implements this algorithm.

The Order & Complexity Toolbox for Aesthetics (OCTA): A systematic approach to study the relations between order, complexity, and aesthetic appreciation

“…Aesthetic Abstract Textures Generator. One tool that does generate reproducible stimuli for use in aesthetics is the random abstract texture generator of Alvarez, Monzón, and Morel (2021). Jean-Michel Morel, Luis Alvarez, and colleagues did design a point-and-click online tool to generate aesthetic stimuli based on composition principles and random sampling (Alvarez, Gousseau, Morel, & Salgado, 2015;Alvarez et al, 2021).…”

“…One tool that does generate reproducible stimuli for use in aesthetics is the random abstract texture generator of Alvarez, Monzón, and Morel (2021). Jean-Michel Morel, Luis Alvarez, and colleagues did design a point-and-click online tool to generate aesthetic stimuli based on composition principles and random sampling (Alvarez, Gousseau, Morel, & Salgado, 2015;Alvarez et al, 2021). 2 This tool is meant for artists and designers to explore and test new styles, and does not allow users to manually specify the location, color, or shape of any element in the display.…”

The Order & Complexity Toolbox for Aesthetics (OCTA): A systematic approach to study the relations between order, complexity, and aesthetic appreciation

“…Aesthetic Abstract Textures Generator. One tool that does generate reproducible stimuli for use in aesthetics is the random abstract texture generator of Alvarez, Monzón, and Morel (2021). Jean-Michel Morel, Luis Alvarez, and colleagues did design a point-and-click online tool to generate aesthetic stimuli based on composition principles and random sampling (Alvarez, Gousseau, Morel, & Salgado, 2015;Alvarez, Monzón, & Morel, 2021 The need for OCTA (see Figure 5)…”

A Survey of Control Mechanisms for Creative Pattern Generation

“…Such designs are usually not executed in an academic context and, beyond the presentation of the results, are unfortunately not well documented. Only a few exceptions, such as the work of T akayama [Tak16] in 3D‐printed ornate shapes or A lvarez et al [AMM19] in randomized abstract texture designs give much information about their underlying algorithms.…”