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SUMMARY:Balancing the expected and the surprising in geometric patterns: a
 n investigation inspired by Bridget Riley's early Op art - Neil Dodgson - 
 University of Cambridge
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CONTACT:Mateja Jamnik
DESCRIPTION:I investigate the trade-off between the expected and the surpr
 ising in certain geometric patterns. This work is inspired by Bridget Rile
 y's early Op art pieces\, "White Discs 2 (1964)" and "Fragment 6/9" (1965)
 . I analyse these two works and investigate a range of variants on them. T
 his leads to hypotheses about the perceptual effects in patterns like thes
 e. I first consider adding different types of "randomness" to a regular pa
 ttern\, and the effect this has on the generated artwork. I then look at t
 he balance of the piece: for best aesthetic effect\, there is evidence tha
 t the choices made cannot be truly random. Finally\, the key hypothesis th
 at arises from the investigations is that there is an aesthetically intere
 sting range where between a quarter and a half of a regular pattern is adj
 usted in some way. I report on a perceptual experiment that tests and supp
 orts this hypothesis.
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 1\, Computer Laboratory
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