A New Aesthetic Evolutionary Approach for Jewelry Design

AbstractThis paper presents a new evolutionary approach to create non-functional art forms for jewelry design. The proposed EA is hybrid between EP, ES, GA and GP. Art forms are represented by using Iterated Function Systems (IFS) fractal for jewelry ring’s ornaments. IFS are encoded in form of chromosomes. Mutation and crossover operators are developed to increase variations of art forms. Two-step fitness function is developed. The first step is morphological fitness function to evaluate compactness and connectivity of art forms. This fitness function screens the incompact and disconnected art forms out of the evolutionary process before going to the next step. The second step is aesthetic fitness function to evaluate aesthetics of art forms. A new aesthetic measure is formulated, based on IFS’s characteristics, aesthetic theory, and human perception. The experimental results of the study are also included in this paper.

[1]  Karl Sims,et al.  Artificial evolution for computer graphics , 1991, SIGGRAPH.

[2]  Ulrich Parlitz,et al.  8 NONLINEAR TIME-SERIES ANALYSIS , 1998 .

[3]  Erik L.J. Bohez,et al.  Intelligent Computer System for Jewelry Design Support , 2004 .

[4]  C. Sparrow.  The Fractal Geometry of Nature , 1984 .

[5]  Deborah J. Aks,et al.  Quantifying Aesthetic Preference for Chaotic Patterns , 1996 .

[6]  Hideki Noda,et al.  An image embedding in image by a complexity based region segmentation method , 1997, Proceedings of International Conference on Image Processing.

[7]  Ben R. Newell,et al.  Universal aesthetic of fractals , 2003, Comput. Graph..

[8]  Ulrich Parlitz,et al.  Nonlinear Time-Series Analysis , 1998 .

[9]  H. E. Huntley.  The Divine Proportion , 1970 .

[10]  John S. Gero,et al.  Creativity, emergence and evolution in design: concepts and framework , 1996 .

[11]  P. Machado,et al.  Computing Aesthetics , 1998 .

[12]  P. Grassberger,et al.  Measuring the Strangeness of Strange Attractors , 1983 .

[13]  John S. Gero,et al.  Creativity, emergence and evolution in design , 1996, Knowl. Based Syst..

[14]  B. Mandelbrot.  Fractal Geometry of Nature , 1984 .

[15]  Rafael C. González,et al.  Local Determination of a Moving Contrast Edge , 1985, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.

[16]  Stephen Todd,et al.  Evolutionary Art and Computers , 1992 .

[17]  Yasuji Sawada,et al.  Practical Methods of Measuring the Generalized Dimension and the Largest Lyapunov Exponent in High Dimensional Chaotic Systems , 1987 .

[18]  Thomas Bäck,et al.  Extended Selection Mechanisms in Genetic Algorithms , 1991, ICGA.

[19]  R. Dawkins.  The Blind Watchmaker , 1986 .

[20]  Joe Rosen.  Symmetry Discovered: Concepts and Applications in Nature and Science , 1975 .

[21]  Erik L.J. Bohez,et al.  Rapid Prototyping and Tooling Technology in Jewelry CAD , 2004 .