Individual art tastes have a certain mystique to them, but now a new Caltech study shows that a simple computer program can accurately predict which paintings a person will like.

The block-based art constraints were chosen because they could easily be created by either a human artist or by a computer, but also because they somewhat resemble existing art such as some of ...

Art as a mathematical formula For his project, Keren tackled the problem by essentially breaking visually stunning masterpieces into sets of mathematical formulas. The computer program sought to ...

Plainly labeled Algorithmic Art, it’s easy to overlook amid flashier offerings like the Wozniak- and Jobs-built Apple-1 computer or the pre–World War II electromechanical rotor-based ...

In the early days of the home computer era, many machines would natively boot into a BASIC interpreter. This was a great way to teach programming to the masses. However on most platforms the graphi… ...

With computer graphics that are so good that you might not even notice them, it's easy to forget just how far we've come. That's where the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California ...