Beauty and structural complexity

Structural determinants of Sleeping Beauty transposase activity

Transposases are important tools in genome engineering, and there is considerable interest in engineering more efficient ones. Here, we seek to understand the factors determining their activity using the Sleeping Beauty transposase. Recent work suggests that protein coevolutionary information can be used to classify groups of physically connected, coevolving residues into elements called "secto...

Predicting beauty: fractal dimension and visual complexity in art.

Visual complexity has been known to be a significant predictor of preference for artistic works for some time. The first study reported here examines the extent to which perceived visual complexity in art can be successfully predicted using automated measures of complexity. Contrary to previous findings the most successful predictor of visual complexity was Gif compression. The second study exa...

Cell Signaling A Spider's Web of Architectural Beauty and Complexity

Lewis Wolpert ducin within 1 s. Each activated G protein can then stimulate an effector enzyme, generating 100–1000 mol-Anatomy and Developmental Biology University College London ecules of second messenger per second, thus yielding as much as a 10 5 amplification of the initial signal. In Gower Street London WC1E 6BT the case of visual transduction, this allows individuals to see in very low l...

Creating complexity--the beauty and logic of synthesis.

Visual Complexity and Beauty Appreciation: Explaining the Divergence of Results

Although a number of studies have verified Daniel Berlyne’s (1971) predicted maximum preference for intermediately complex stimuli, others have found that preference increased or decreased in relation to complexity. The objective of the present work was to assess whether differences in the kinds of stimuli used in prior studies or in the way complexity was defined could explain this divergence....