Various approaches to create geometrical shapes by procedural means are described for applications in art and architecture. Some examples are given, ranging from conceptual building shapes, through modular wall elements, to abstract geometrical sculptures.

In most cases, people judge creativity by evaluating the resulting artifact, after the productive behavior has been completed. Hence, we will concentrate on the artifact here. However, sometimes the artistic process is inferable by the evaluator, perhaps due to some attributes of the artifact, or sometimes it’s even observable. Colton (2008) argues that art is identified as more creative if the...

Visual generative models, such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) [1] and Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) [2], have achieve remarkable results in generating visual images [3, 4, 5, 6]. While most existing work [3, 4] focus on photorealistic images, the problem of generating artistic images is relatively underinvestigated. Different from photorealistic images, artistic images exhibit larg...

an investigation on the thermal performance of the soil as geothermal heat energy storage medium has been conducted. the thermal characteristics of the soil storage and the heat transfer from a heat exchanger in the soil, surrounding and bottom surface will be discussed. this investigation forms a contribution to a project to realize such storage to be charged from a solar heating system. this ...

Altering the viewing parameters of a 3D object results in computer graphics images of varying quality. One aspect of image quality is the composition of the image. While the esthetic properties of an image are subjective, some heuristics used by artists to create images can be approximated quantitatively. We present an algorithm based on heuristic compositional rules for finding the format, vie...

“Passages” is an immersive, multimodal, user-controlled artistic interface. The installation consists of a 3D interactive virtual environment, stereoscopic projection screen, and a specialized haptic interface device (vibrotactile dataglove). Both the glove and the users’ glasses are tracked by a long-range Polhemus electromagnetic sensor in real time, allowing kinesthetic exploration of the vi...

INTRODUCTION The inherent beauty of science has recently become more accessible to the general public due to an escalation in the publication of multi-color computer-generated graphics images as well as photomi-crographs and other images of scientific interest. These images are appearing on the covers of many scientific and trade periodicals (currently numbering over 250) where they serve as ey...