On the mathematics of beauty: beautiful images
This addresses the problem of objectively measuring aesthetic appeal in images, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing information theory concepts.
The paper tackles the problem of quantifying beauty in simple visual patterns by showing that aesthetically appealing patterns deliver higher information across multiple levels using the same energy, and applies this approach to classify such patterns.
In this paper, we will study the simplest kind of beauty which can be found in simple visual patterns. The proposed approach shows that aesthetically appealing patterns deliver higher amount of information over multiple levels in comparison with less aesthetically appealing patterns when the same amount of energy is used. The proposed approach is used to classify aesthetically appealing patterns.