The Visual Complexity of Pollock's Dripped Fractals
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Fractals have experienced considerable success in quantifying the complex structure exhibited by many natural patterns and have captured the imagination of scientists and artists alike [Mandelbrot]. With ever widening appeal, they have been referred to both as "fingerprints of nature" [Taylor et al 1999] and "the new aesthetics" [Richards]. Recently, we showed that the drip patterns of the American abstract painter Jackson Pollock are fractal [Taylor et al 1999]. In this paper, we describe visual perception tests that investigate whether fractal images generated by mathematical, natural and human processes possess a shared aesthetic quality based on visual complexity.
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