{"id":16243,"date":"2010-02-22T13:18:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T13:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2010\/02\/video-a-computational-model-of-aesthetics.html"},"modified":"2010-02-22T13:18:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T13:18:45","slug":"video_a_computational_model_of_aesthetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/22\/video_a_computational_model_of_aesthetics\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: &quot;A computational model of aesthetics&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People always like to joke about Photoshop eventually adding a big red &#8220;Make My Photo Good&#8221; button, automatically figuring out what looks good &amp; what adjustments are needed.  Of course, researchers are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.zju.edu.cn\/ligangliu\/CAGD\/Projects\/Composition\/\">working on just that sort of thing<\/a>:<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/74dE8XA3b-s&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\nAs someone who aspires to be creative, I have mixed feelings.  The idea of rating images according to precomputed standards of beauty makes me think of the Robin Williams character in <em>Dead Poets Society<\/em> excoriating a textbook that rated poetry along two axes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Excrement! That&#8217;s what I think of Mr. J. Evans Pritchard! We&#8217;re not laying pipe! We&#8217;re talking about poetry. How can you describe poetry like American Bandstand? &#8220;I like Byron, I give him a 42 but I can&#8217;t dance to it!&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And yet, I find I&#8217;m intrigued by the idea, wanting to run the algorithm on my images&#8211;if only, maybe, to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2005\/11\/something_terrible.html\">have fun flouting it<\/a>.  I also have to admit that I&#8217;d like to see the images taken by certain of my family members (<em>not you, hon<\/em>) run through such algorithms&#8211;if only to crop in on the good stuff.<br \/>\n[Via Jerry Harris]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People always like to joke about Photoshop eventually adding a big red &#8220;Make My Photo Good&#8221; button, automatically figuring out what looks good &amp; what adjustments are needed. Of course, researchers are working on just that sort of thing: As someone who aspires to be creative, I have mixed feelings. The idea of rating images [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16243"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}