Monday, October 25, 2010
Dont fall!
Monday, October 18, 2010
Computational Aesthetic Evaluation
Today I attended a lecture on Computational Aesthetic Evaluation, given by Mr. Phillip Galanter. The main topic of the lecture was that there were new ways to discover what was aesthetically pleasing and what was not aesthetically pleasing to the human eye. Mr. Galanter presented the audience with a new idea of a computer that would be able to tell if something was aesthetically pleasing by balancing order and disorder. I did not exactly follow or agree with Mr. Galanter's computational aesthetic evaluation idea. How can a computer tell me what is pleasing or not pleasing? People have different views on everything, what is pleasing to one human may not be pleasing to another. Remember the saying, "one mans garbage is another mans treasure" I do not believe a computer can tell me what I like and what I do not like. One lady in the audience asked Mr. Galanter if this system was similar to pandora radio, and Mr. Galanter said yes. I do not agree with that, yes pandora selects what music we might like, but I do not like all the individual songs it selects. Maybe this whole idea is too complex for my freshman mind to grasp. I just dont believe a machine can tell a human what they find aesthetically pleasing. I alone do not know everything I like and dislike, so how can a computer know? Mr. Galanter suggests that it would be possible through a thread of complex order relationships that balance order and disorder. He also stated that aesthetics are used in everything, including mating, genes and society. I think Mr. Galanter wants to box in aesthetic design. This might be possible one day in the future, but not in my lifetime.
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Whats wrong with this house?
BAD ARCHITECTURE! Notice that the left dormer has 6 window panes and the one on the right has eight! This house is in my hometown, I had to pass it everyday on my way to school... I hate it.
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