We advocate a research approach to determining the conditions of engagement in game simulation that is a multi-disciplinary cultural and scientific inquiry at the juncture of psychological, artistic, and programming perspectives. What are the factors that cause some people to become enthralled with detail-oriented simulation game-play, while others are captivated by more abstracted, symbolic st...

Research in non-photorealistic rendering often focuses on reproducing specific artistic styles. Unfortunately, many artists are unwilling or unable to articulate the technical basis of their style. Bob Ross is a notable exception. He left behind a complete and explicit record, in print and on video. His paintings cut many corners in the representation of reality, but they are convincing. Bob Ro...

A popular definition of computational creativity is that it consists in behaviour that would be regarded as creative if performed by humans. This raises the question of which humans, as there are many different styles of human creative behaviour. This paper unpacks a number of ways in which human artistic creativity can be characterised, compares them with the kinds of creative actions found in...

The present study examined individual differences in artistic preferences in a sample of 91,692 participants (60% women and 40% men), aged 13-90 years. Participants completed a Big Five personality inventory (Goldberg, 1999) and provided preference ratings for 24 different paintings corresponding to cubism, renaissance, impressionism, and Japanese art, which loaded on to a latent factor of over...

In this paper we present a method to generate a digital mosaic starting from a raster input image. Mosaics generation of artistic quality is challenging. The basic elements, the tiles, typically small polygons, must be packed tightly, emphasizing orientations chosen by the artist. An ad­hoc boundaries detection have to be performed according to the directional g...

We have shown that it is possible to achieve artistic style transfer within a purely image processing paradigm. This is in contrast to previous work that utilized deep neural networks to learn the difference between “style” and “content” in a painting. We leverage the work by Kwatra et. al. on texture synthesis to accomplish “style synthesis” from our given style images, building off the work o...

The identity of subjects in many portraits has been a matter of debate by art historians that relied on subjective analysis of facial features. Developing automated face verification technique has thus garnered interest to provide a quantitative way to reinforce the decision arrived by the art historians. However, most existing works often fail to resolve ambiguities concerning the identity of ...

In this paper we report on our research into the development of computational embodied systems dedicated to the production of artworks. We present a conceptual framework that introduces the notion of style-space in relation to the visual arts. This framework underpins and guides our general approach to the development of autonomous agents capable of producing objects that have artistic value. I...

A New Artistic Rendering of Izapa Stela 5 A Step toward Improved Interpretation