G.W. Flake, The Computational Beauty of Nature

G. W. Flake, The Computational Beauty of Nature

As the author of The Computational Beauty of Nature (hereafter, abbreviated as CBN) I am grateful for both the complimentary remarks as well as the thoughtful criticisms made by Melanie Moses, Stephanie Forrest, and Martin Berzins. As Moses and Forrest point out, CBN contains many of my intellectual biases and enthusiasms and, as a result, it undoubtedly contains imperfections related to my sub...

Review of The Computational Beauty of Nature

example, is not participating in emergent behavior. The second theme is the presence of unexpected and interesting behavior in dynamic systems. Flake describes several examples of this, relating them to one another. Emergence—simple behavior in a complex system—is the first instance. Conversely, a simple system can also exhibit complicated behavior but only if it is nonlinear; this revelation w...

The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems and Adaptation by Gary William Flake

Computational Beauty Analysis

Our project was a continuation of the recent research published by Yael Eisenthal, Gideon Dror, and Eytan Ruppin entitled: Facial Attractiveness: Beauty and the Machine [1]. The authors used a variety of machine learning techniques to predict facial attractiveness ratings from photographs. They had two data sets, each consisting of ninety-two photographs of young, Caucasian women. All images in...

“Is Beauty Truly in the Eye of the Beholder?” – The Universal Nature of Facial Beauty

ur face allows us to convey our every thought and feeling with those around us in a nearly instantaneous manner. Without our face, we would be stuck in an emotionless and depressing self-existence devoid of a primary vehicle of communication. As social beings, it is in our very nature to share our expressions with the outside world. It is likewise in our nature to subconsciously judge each face...