NON-EPISTEMIC GENERATIVE AESTHETIC

An Investigation into Aesthetic Preference using Generative Art

1.0 INTRODUCTION The existence of a universal aesthetic preference has long been a topic of debate. Several years ago, thinking about generative art, I realised that it would be possible to evolve pictures according to the viewer’s personal preference. I also realised that the resulting pictures, if taken from a wide variety of people, might indicate some kind of universal aesthetic preference....

Neocollagenesis in Non-Invasive Aesthetic Treatments

Dermal neocollagenesis is often assumed to be the main reason of visible skin improvement after different non-invasive and minimal invasive aesthetic treatments. However, the very slow dynamics of the mature collagen remodelling in the extra cellular matrix (ECM) of dermis, with a half-life time of 15 years, renders every observable upregulation of collagen production insufficient to replace a ...

Non-Photorealistic Rendering for Aesthetic Virtual Environments

The line integral convolution (LIC) method, originally developed for imaging vector fields in scientific visualization, has the potential to produce images with directional characteristics. In this paper, we present four techniques to explore the use of LIC in generating images in the style of the Impressionists. In particular, we develop an Impressionist Line Integral Convolution algorithm (IL...

Non-epistemic Feminist Values in Scientific Inquiry

In this paper I examine the feminist claim that non-epistemic values ought to play a role in scientific inquiry. I examine four holist arguments that non-epistemic values ought to play a role not only in the external aspects of scientific inquiry such as problem selection and the ethics of experimentation but also in its internal aspects, those that have to do with epistemic justification. In s...

THE BEAUTY OF SYMMETRICAL DESIGN: THE ALLEGED EPISTEMIC ROLE OF AESTHETIC VALUE IN THEORETICAL SCIENCE By