Abstract
An expression for the intensity of central excitation corresponding to the perception of an angle is derived. A general expression for the aesthetic value of certain types of polygonal patterns is derived there-from and compared with experimental values obtained by the rank order method. The theory is found to agree with the experiment within a limit of about 10%.
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Rashevsky, N., Brown, V. Contributions to the mathematical biophysics of visual aesthetics. Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics 6, 163–168 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02478434
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02478434