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Language & culture dynamics, corpora&experiments | PhD from @UoE_CLE, now postdoc at @CUDANlab @TallinnUni | Also #rstats #dataviz #dh workshops ⟶ @aRtofdataviz
May 23, 2022 7 tweets 6 min read
New preprint:
"Compression ensembles quantify aesthetic complexity and the evolution of visual art" 🎨🖼️📈
by @AndresKarjus @schichmax @sebastianahnert @mcanet @tillmannohm
🔓arxiv.org/abs/2205.10271
1/🧵 Image 2/7 How does it work? Take an image, run it through a large n of visual filters (blur, gray, edges, etc), compress the variants, record file sizes. Yields a vector where each value expresses some aspect of visual aesthetics, resulting in an explainable vector space. Simple&fast! Image