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 ...

Katy French combines art and sustainability with a simple sun printing craft that anyone can do using acrylic paint.

He adds, "My process begins with finding a reference for inspiration. Then I write a one-line story or idea to guide the ...

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 ...

Computer art in the era of big data and deep learning, though, is a reckoning for algorithms, capital-A. We must now embrace – either to wrestle or to caress – computer art.

That’s it. Compare that simple method with supposedly more sophisticated machine-learning-based generative tools that have become popular in the past year or so.

If your computer runs low on RAM or VRAM, digital art software will utilize a high speed SSD to help offload some of that demand. At the very least, you're going to want to have at least 8GB of RAM.