Designing color symmetry in stigmergic art
This work addresses a niche problem for artists and researchers in generative art, but it is incremental as it combines existing concepts without major breakthroughs.
The paper tackled the problem of applying color symmetry to bio-inspired generative art by using stigmergy-derived motifs, resulting in visual examples that demonstrate the design procedure.
Color symmetry is an extension of symmetry imposed by isometric transformations and means that the colors of geometrical objects are assigned according to the symmetry properties of the objects. A color symmetry permutes the coloring of the objects consistently with their symmetry group. We apply this concept to bio-inspired generative art. Therefore, we interpret the geometrical objects as motifs that may repeat themselves with a symmetry-consistent coloring. The motifs are obtained by design principles from stigmergy. We discuss a design procedure and present visual results.