joramnet opened this issue on Dec 09, 2003 ยท 49 posts
caulbox posted Tue, 09 December 2003 at 1:33 PM
Or is it even a display of intelligence? I've a background in AI research, and computer generated art was often cited as an example of such a possibility. Sure... the procedures employed in its creation were the results of human endeavour. But the complexities which become possible when even just a handful of simple procedural calls are asked to recursively call upon themselves in their logic, rapidly creates a combinatorial explosion which leaves human understanding in it's wake. If a work of art is generated, then just maybe on occasions it will have been generated by a process which is beyond human understanding, but far from being random. I have little doubt that the material room in Poser is a gestalt source of amazement.