Department of Mathematics, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany.
Cogn Sci. 2012 Jan-Feb;36(1):142-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2011.01198.x. Epub 2011 Sep 19.
Color charts, or grids of evenly spaced multicolored dots or squares, appear in the work of modern artists and designers. Often the artist/designer distributes the many colors in a way that could be described as "random," that is, without an obvious pattern. We conduct a statistical analysis of 125 "random-looking" art and design color charts and show that they differ significantly from truly random color charts in the average distance between adjacent colors. We argue that this attribute generalizes results in subjective randomness in a black/white setting and gives further evidence supporting a connection between subjective randomness and what is esthetically pleasing.
色彩图表，或由均匀间隔的多色点或正方形组成的网格，出现在现代艺术家和设计师的作品中。通常，艺术家/设计师以一种可以被描述为“随机”的方式分配多种颜色，也就是说，没有明显的模式。我们对 125 张“看似随机”的艺术和设计色彩图表进行了统计分析，结果表明它们与真正随机的色彩图表在相邻颜色之间的平均距离上有显著差异。我们认为，这个属性概括了在黑白环境下主观随机性的结果，并提供了更多证据支持主观随机性与审美愉悦之间的联系。
