One crazy_idea I once had was to mine popular paintings and phottographs for aestetic patterns and derive (properties of) an synthetic optimum picture from that.
I had some hypotheses about the result and these could be checked thereby. For example pictures or landscapes depicting places that should be safe and ressourceful in the ancestral environment should rate highly (e.g. looking out of a dry cave over a bountiful valley with trees and and river or coast and a sky that promises good weather.
For pictures of people or faces there are some results of what is considered beautiful.
But for user interfaces this is more difficult to predict.
One crazy_idea I once had was to mine popular paintings and phottographs for aestetic patterns and derive (properties of) an synthetic optimum picture from that.
Not crazy enough—people have done that :-) I don’t have links handy, but there was at least one project which merged pictures of attractive women to create an “average-pretty” face—it may have been culture specific, that is, they repeated this exercise for pictures of women considered attractive in different countries. As far as I remember, the end result was a predictable meh.
One crazy_idea I once had was to mine popular paintings and phottographs for aestetic patterns and derive (properties of) an synthetic optimum picture from that.
I had some hypotheses about the result and these could be checked thereby. For example pictures or landscapes depicting places that should be safe and ressourceful in the ancestral environment should rate highly (e.g. looking out of a dry cave over a bountiful valley with trees and and river or coast and a sky that promises good weather.
For pictures of people or faces there are some results of what is considered beautiful.
But for user interfaces this is more difficult to predict.
Not crazy enough—people have done that :-) I don’t have links handy, but there was at least one project which merged pictures of attractive women to create an “average-pretty” face—it may have been culture specific, that is, they repeated this exercise for pictures of women considered attractive in different countries. As far as I remember, the end result was a predictable meh.