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...

In two sessions with free scanning and memory instructions, eye-movement patterns from nine artists were compared with those of nine artistically untrained participants viewing 16 pictures representing a selection of categories from ordinary scenes to abstraction: 12 pictures were made to accommodate an object-oriented viewing mode (selection of recognisable objects), and a pictorial viewing mo...

This work presents a novel way of generating color differences for synthesizing artistically screened color images. A single color is specified by interacting with the mouse alternately on a constant luminance plane and on a constant hue plane within the LEF color space (the orthogonal space formed by the RGB cube's black-white axis (L) and by its E and F chrominance axes). By interactively sel...

Understanding how to create the right movement for a specific character is a significant open problem in computer animation. This same problem, however, has been at the heart of the work of performance artists for hundreds of years. In this work, we try to learn from the lessons contained in the performing arts literature so that we can apply them to creating rich, engaging, animated characters...

We implement and extend existing methods to detect salient objects and generate a segmentation map which is used to artistically desaturate the background. We evaluate the performance using a Jaccard similarity metric against the ground truth