Parallel to AARON
Abstract: Undergraduate thesis upon a modern take of Harold Cohen's Parallel to Perception paper. The thesis qualifies Cohen's theories in the light of other artists attempting similar work and against art and perceptual theory. A discussion on neural networks in the service of a creative artificial intelligence is also discussed.
Parallel to Aaron PDF document
Companion CD
The Parallel to AARON thesis was accompanied by a CD detailing research into neural nets undertaken in the form of Java applets built with Processing. These are reproduced in this site's archive:
Attempt at applying SOM to composition
Gesture Recogntion (Back Propagation)
Demonstration of Stephen Wolfram's automata
The CD also listed the links for the internet resources used in writing the thesis. These are below:
A. Michael Noll’s Computer Composition with Lines
Artificial neuron illustration
Biological neuron illustration
Kohonen clustering algorithm tutorial