By: Jorge Márquez / / skizofreniko_8@hotmail.com
The study of beauty as a quality of objects was revived in a modern approach in 1928 when the American mathematician George David Birkhoff presented his often cited equation:
Aesthetic Value = (order quantity) / (product complexity)
The last two elements in the equation can Birkhoff be easily measured, at least in a rudimentary level. Birkhoff himself tested the equation by designing a vessel that had great value of beauty in his opinion because only a very limited number of elements (only 3 different curves) were needed to create a highly consistent results.
Birkhoff's method has been applied to a coffee pot made in the factory Rosenthal. This coffee consists of several dozens of pictorial elements, with what Birkhoff probably find less than its aesthetic beauty of his own creation.
The following decades saw, mainly in Germany, a long series of studies in which researchers standards met by the meeting of simple components, measuring their complexity and systematic they were, and examined the extent to which these pictures were beautiful individuals who participated in the test. However, these investigations were not very successful. Few people found simple figures beautiful, and in regard to real art, it is difficult to measure the parameters of Birkhoff in them. Today, mainstream research tends to see the beauty not as a property of objects, but either as a sensation related to perception, or alternatively as a message. Paradigm both documents will be discussed later.
In my opinion the single components will be named for not having a complexity of form within an object, even Birkhoff says that using more complex the shape is more possess aesthetic value, but sometimes simplicity does not give beauty for many people, because it gives the beauty of an object using a perceptual feeling totally subjective.
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