r, p 2006: Color, Simply. Harold Cohen
AARON began more than thirty years ago as research directed to a deeper understanding of how we make images and how we read them, than twenty years as a professional artist had revealed. AARON was a drawing program, its structure loosely following the thencurrent expert system paradigm, that exhibited a distinctive art personality of its own, and the programnot just its outputwas widely exhibited during its first ten years. Of the many thousands of original drawings it generated, some were colored by hand and a few turned into paintings and murals. The problem of having a sightless program control something as fundamentally visual as color appeared intractable, however, and it was the mideighties before the first rulebased version showed that it might be possible. It took twenty years more for AARON to become the worldclass colorist it is today. This talk provides some background on the technology of color control, and presents an overview of how the program s expertise de
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