Interactive design of random aesthetic abstract textures by composition principles

The automatic synthesis of abstract textures is, to some extent, feasible. As evidenced by abstract art theoreticians, an abstract picture can be thought of as a tree of elementary shapes interacting by a short list of composition laws such as occlusion, exclusion, bordering, and by rendering rules such as transparency, tessellation, color selection. Randomizing the shape generator and the composition and rendering laws yields an algorithm generating random abstract textures. We have designed an online user-friendly tool www.ipol.im/aat implementing this algorithm.