VMI Chaos

Chaos and Experimental Aesthetics

References

Berlyne, D. E., Aesthetics and Psychobiology, New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1971. Chapter 2 gives a brief historical sketch, beginning with Gustav Fechner, 1860. Julien Clinton Sprott, Automatic Generation of Strange Attractors Comput. & Graphics 17, 325-332 (1993). This paper began a new era of empirical aesthetics. Deborah Aks and Julien Clinton Sprott, Quantifying aesthetic preference for chaotic patterns, Empirical Studies of the Arts 14, 1-16 (1996). Fred Abraham, Julien C. Sprott, et al, preprint. Judgements of Time, Aesthetics, and Complexity Continues the work of Aks and Sprott. Livio, Mario, The Golden Ratio, New York: Broadway Books, 2002. Taylor, Richard P., Fractal Expressionism web page. See also, Perceptual and Physiological Responses to the Visual Complexity of Fractal Patterns, in the Jan 2005 issue of Nonlinear Dynamics in Psychology and the Life Sciences See also, Universal aesthetic of fractals, Branka Spehar, Colin Clifford, Ben Newell, and Richard P. Taylor, Computers and Graphics, 27 (2003) 813-820.: Chapter 2 gives a brief historical sketch, beginning with Gustav Fechner, 1860.
Julien Clinton Sprott, Automatic Generation of Strange Attractors Comput. & Graphics 17, 325-332 (1993). This paper began a new era of empirical aesthetics. Deborah Aks and Julien Clinton Sprott, Quantifying aesthetic preference for chaotic patterns, Empirical Studies of the Arts 14, 1-16 (1996). Fred Abraham, Julien C. Sprott, et al, preprint. Judgements of Time, Aesthetics, and Complexity Continues the work of Aks and Sprott. Livio, Mario, The Golden Ratio, New York: Broadway Books, 2002. Taylor, Richard P., Fractal Expressionism web page. See also, Perceptual and Physiological Responses to the Visual Complexity of Fractal Patterns, in the Jan 2005 issue of Nonlinear Dynamics in Psychology and the Life Sciences See also, Universal aesthetic of fractals, Branka Spehar, Colin Clifford, Ben Newell, and Richard P. Taylor, Computers and Graphics, 27 (2003) 813-820.: Automatic Generation of Strange Attractors; Comput. & Graphics 17, 325-332 (1993).; This paper began a new era of empirical aesthetics.
Deborah Aks and Julien Clinton Sprott, Quantifying aesthetic preference for chaotic patterns, Empirical Studies of the Arts 14, 1-16 (1996). Fred Abraham, Julien C. Sprott, et al, preprint. Judgements of Time, Aesthetics, and Complexity Continues the work of Aks and Sprott. Livio, Mario, The Golden Ratio, New York: Broadway Books, 2002. Taylor, Richard P., Fractal Expressionism web page. See also, Perceptual and Physiological Responses to the Visual Complexity of Fractal Patterns, in the Jan 2005 issue of Nonlinear Dynamics in Psychology and the Life Sciences See also, Universal aesthetic of fractals, Branka Spehar, Colin Clifford, Ben Newell, and Richard P. Taylor, Computers and Graphics, 27 (2003) 813-820.: Quantifying aesthetic preference for chaotic patterns, Empirical Studies of the Arts 14, 1-16 (1996).
Fred Abraham, Julien C. Sprott, et al, preprint. Judgements of Time, Aesthetics, and Complexity Continues the work of Aks and Sprott. Livio, Mario, The Golden Ratio, New York: Broadway Books, 2002. Taylor, Richard P., Fractal Expressionism web page. See also, Perceptual and Physiological Responses to the Visual Complexity of Fractal Patterns, in the Jan 2005 issue of Nonlinear Dynamics in Psychology and the Life Sciences See also, Universal aesthetic of fractals, Branka Spehar, Colin Clifford, Ben Newell, and Richard P. Taylor, Computers and Graphics, 27 (2003) 813-820.: Continues the work of Aks and Sprott.
Livio, Mario, The Golden Ratio, New York: Broadway Books, 2002. Taylor, Richard P., Fractal Expressionism web page. See also, Perceptual and Physiological Responses to the Visual Complexity of Fractal Patterns, in the Jan 2005 issue of Nonlinear Dynamics in Psychology and the Life Sciences See also, Universal aesthetic of fractals, Branka Spehar, Colin Clifford, Ben Newell, and Richard P. Taylor, Computers and Graphics, 27 (2003) 813-820.: New York: Broadway Books, 2002.
Taylor, Richard P., Fractal Expressionism web page. See also, Perceptual and Physiological Responses to the Visual Complexity of Fractal Patterns, in the Jan 2005 issue of Nonlinear Dynamics in Psychology and the Life Sciences See also, Universal aesthetic of fractals, Branka Spehar, Colin Clifford, Ben Newell, and Richard P. Taylor, Computers and Graphics, 27 (2003) 813-820.: See also, Perceptual and Physiological Responses to the Visual Complexity of Fractal Patterns, in the
Jan 2005 issue of Nonlinear Dynamics in Psychology and the Life Sciences; See also, Universal aesthetic of fractals, Branka Spehar, Colin Clifford, Ben Newell, and Richard P. Taylor, Computers and Graphics, 27 (2003) 813-820.

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