Hugo Liu & Pattie Maes (2005). The aesthetiscope: visualizing aesthetic readings of text in color space. Proceedings of the 18th International FLAIRS Conference (AI in Music & Art track), 74–79, AAAI Press.
Liu, H., & Maes, P. (2005). The aesthetiscope: visualizing aesthetic readings of text in color space. In Proceedings of the 18th International FLAIRS Conference (AI in Music & Art track) (pp. 74–79). AAAI Press.
@inproceedings{liu2005the,
author = {Hugo Liu and Pattie Maes},
title = {The aesthetiscope: visualizing aesthetic readings of text in color space},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 18th International FLAIRS Conference (AI in Music & Art track)},
pages = {74--79},
publisher = {AAAI Press},
url = {https://starheartsong.com/papers/pdf/FLAIRS2005-Aesthetiscope.pdf},
year = {2005}
}Aesthetiscope reads a word, poem, or lyric through five modules—Thinking, Feeling, Sensation, Intuition, and Culturalizing—then maps their associations into a glimmering 16-by-9 color field. ConceptNet supplies rational links; popular-culture text cultural ones; stock images remembered colors; free-association norms intuition; and affective vocabularies feeling. Sliders set each reader's contribution. Informal feedback from psychologists, designers, colorists, and hundreds of visitors shaped the installation: grid borders disappeared, source associations became briefly visible, and the image learned to breathe. Visitors seemed to prefer either intuitive/feeling or thinking/sensation mixtures, but personality type remained a hypothesis. This paper contains no controlled experiment; text is mostly a bag of local features, cultural sources are American, sensation is visual, and weights are manual.