Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Software drawings are almost art

A computer scientist, Simon Colton, has developed a software program called "The Painting Fool," which appears to draw creatively. The program runs web searches and examines social networks. These searches allow it to pick topics that interest humans. It can even draw fuzzy landscapes as though it had a rudimentary imagination. The internet even has a gallery of its recent paintings that can be reviewed.

from: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2012/01/painting-computer-surprises-viewers-with-its-artwork.html?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=painting

Comment by the Blog Author

This computer and its program are performing craftsmanship and photoshop camera work. There’s nothing wrong with this, but it isn’t genuine art.

Smeary, fuzzy, senseless painting – which is inferior to the work of this software – isn’t art, either!

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