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From: dmark@sunybcs (David Mark)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.graphics
Subject: expert systems for graphic design?
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Date: 24 Apr 88 17:33:13 GMT
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Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Geography
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Keywords: design, graphics, maps, cartography

REQUEST:  Does anyone our there know of any expert systems (or other
kinds of software systems) for evaluating the graphic design of a
display?  I am thinking of something which takes either an object-
oriented description of a graphic, or a bit-map of an image, and
evaluates such graphic concepts as balance, figure-ground, contrast, 
etc.

Some of us in Geography in Buffalo are working on a cartographic
expert system, and it seems to us that (at least some) general
principles of graphic design will apply and be useful in the map
domain.  So if such a system already exists, we would be wasting 
time trying to re-invent it.

If people reply to me via email, I will summarize responses to the net.

David Mark, Professor, Geography
dmark@joey.cs.buffalo.edu
dmark@sunybcs.BITNET