Pursuit and Expression of Japanese Beauty Using Technology

Abstract

We have been working on the creation of media art, utilizing technologies. In this paper, we have focused on media art created based on the visualization of fluid behaviors. This area is named “fluid dynamics” and there has been a variety of research in this area. However, most of the visualization results of the fluid dynamics show only stable fluid behaviors and a lack of unstable or, in other words, unpredictable behaviors that would be significant in the creation of art. To create various unstable or unpredictable fluid behaviors, we have developed and introduced several new methods to control fluid behaviors and created two media arts called “Sound of Ikebana” and “Genesis”. Interestingly, people find and feel that there is Japanese beauty in these media arts, although they are created based on a natural phenomenon. This paper proposes the basic concept of media art based on the visualization of fluid dynamics and describes details of the methods that were developed by us to create unpredictable fluid dynamics-based phenomena. Also, we will discuss the relationship between Japanese beauty and physical phenomena represented by fluid dynamics.

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“…She was inspired by watching various fluid dynamics based phenomena such as "milk crown" and after various experiments succeeded in creating beautiful forms. Although created forms are abstract, many people indicated that they feel Japanese beauty in these abstract forms [9]. Therefore, we think that the Sound of Ikebana would be a good representation of Japanese abstract art.…”

“…Dataset B1: Kandinsky abstract artworks in Wiki Art [8]. Dataset B2: Naoko Tosa's Sound of Ikebana [9] [10]. Dataset B3: Sansui artworks in CS231N project "Chinese Painting Generation Using Generative Adversarial Networks" at Stanford University [11].…”

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“…As described in Chapter 2, Cycle GAN can be used to carry out the transformation between two image sets, even if there is no one-to-one correspondence between images belonging to each image set. So far, reference [3] merely states that landscape photographs could be converted into Monet-style paintings and vice versa. But the authors consider that Cycle GAN could be applied to research investigating the relationship between art and beauty.…”

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