My journey in art and computing, so far (SIGGRAPH Award Talk)
https://aaronhertzmann.com/2024/08/19/journey.html
Published: August 19, 2024 00:00
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Judgments that get in the way of making art
https://aaronhertzmann.com/2024/06/21/judgments.html
Published: June 21, 2024 00:00
In this post I want to share a rule that I find useful in making art as a hobby: avoid the kinds of good/bad/should judgments that get in the way of making art.
Why Evolution Isn’t Optimization
https://aaronhertzmann.com/2024/06/19/why-evolution-isnt-optimization.html
Published: June 19, 2024 00:00
As a computer scientist, it’s natural to think of evolution as an optimization process. After all, the process of Darwinian natural selection looks a lot like optimization: if two related genotypes give different outcomes—one is slightly more successful…
Perspective Distortions: Why Normal Cameras Make Faces Look Weird
https://aaronhertzmann.com/2024/06/10/perspective-distortions.html
Published: June 10, 2024 00:00
Have you ever noticed how peoples’ faces look stretched in group selfies?
Visual Illusions Explainable by the Limitations of Peripheral Vision
https://aaronhertzmann.com/2024/05/24/fixations-vision-illusions.html
Published: May 24, 2024 00:00
What happens when you look at a picture? Your eyes move over the picture, to take in different parts of it. In each eye fixation on a picture, we get a sense of part of a picture, and piece those different parts together in some way. Most of the time, we…
The Illusion of Awareness: Why We See Much Less Than We Think We Do
https://aaronhertzmann.com/2024/05/09/illusion-of-awareness.html
Published: May 9, 2024 00:00
A few years ago, while walking home, I noticed a dry cleaners across the street from my house. “Was that always there?” I thought, surprised. I’d walked by that spot many, many times over the years, but I’d never noticed the cleaners. A little Googling…
Computer Graphics Research As Scientific Modeling of Pictures
https://aaronhertzmann.com/2024/03/15/computer-graphics-research.html
Published: March 15, 2024 00:00
In this post I propose a view of how to understand computer graphics research. Then I’ll mention some limitations of these definitions and philosophy of definitions in general.