Hugo Liu & Pattie Maes (2006). Rendering aesthetic impressions of text in color space. International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools 15(4), 515–550, World Scientific.
Liu, H., & Maes, P. (2006). Rendering aesthetic impressions of text in color space. International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, 15(4), 515–550.
@article{liu2006rendering,
author = {Hugo Liu and Pattie Maes},
title = {Rendering aesthetic impressions of text in color space},
journal = {International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools},
volume = {15},
number = {4},
pages = {515--550},
publisher = {World Scientific},
doi = {10.1142/s0218213006002801},
url = {https://starheartsong.com/papers/pdf/IJAIT2006-AestheticReadings.pdf},
year = {2006}
}Aesthetiscope renders a word, poem, or lyric as a 16-by-9 field of color. Five readers—Think, Culturalize, See, Intuit, and Feel—draw on common sense, popular culture, stock imagery, free association, affective vocabulary, and color theory. Their palettes are blended and arranged into one animated response. Four graduate judges found Intuit and Feel the most consistent, while Think and Culturalize were weaker. In a separate study, fifty-one MIT and Harvard students chose between the correct “Golden Setting” image and one generated from another text; correct pairings were selected 75.2 percent of the time for poems and songs and 80.7 percent for words. The setting was manually chosen, samples were narrow, associations culturally bounded, and reader weights were not yet personalized.