By , he had developed a painting system and presented a paper on it at the Fall Joint Computer Conference. Shortly thereafter, he was invited to display the system and some of its works at the Los Angeles County Museum. It was intended to identify the functional primitives and differentiations used in the building of mental images and, consequently, in the making of drawings and paintings.
The program was able to differentiate, for example, between figure and ground and inside and outside, and to function in terms of similarity, division and repetition. Without any object-specific knowledge of the external world, AARON constituted a severely limited model of human cognition, yet the few primitives it embodied proved to be remarkably powerful in generating highly evocative images: images, that is, that suggested, without describing, an external world.
AARON, as Cohen worked with it from onward, could be seen as an art creation expert system, though Cohen somewhat rejected that moniker.
The initial output of the paint system was primitive; the drawings were black and white, though over time Cohen would color many by hand. How can I possibly teach it to color before I die? Collection of the Computer History Museum. The turtles gave way to sturdier pens on robotic arms. The system, measuring almost 8 feet long and nearly 6 feet wide, used a vacuum table to hold the paper in place while an arm drew and then colored the forms.
The process was slightly altered for the exhibit. Next, the file was loaded onto the PC-compatible, which controlled the robot arm. The robot then mixed paints on a palette to create custom colors, which it applied using a variety of brushes.
The images featured fewer of the biomorphic forms that had been the hallmark of the early versions of AARON and, instead, showcased images of people, plants, and tables. The first image created with the new system was sold at an auction held at the Computer Museum in Boston. In , this untitled painting of two figures was donated to the Computer History Museum and is now a part of its Permanent Collection.
Cohen wrote extensively about AARON, looking at the questions a computer-based artistic system raised both within the computing and art worlds. Please go to myaccount. You can also sign up for EZPay automatic payments by contacting your store. What should I do if I can't remember my password to make an online payment?
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