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title: "Making Aesthetic Choices"
authors:
  - "Kenneth M. Kahn"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/97"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/0097.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1979
pages: ""
track: ""
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# Making Aesthetic Choices

Kenneth M. Kahn

*Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*.

## Abstract

A fr•mework Is presented for making choices that are primarily constrained by aesthetic, as opposed to pr•am•lic, consider•lions. An example of the application of this framework is a computer system celled "Ani", capeble of m1kina simple computer 1nim1tion in response to high-level incomplete story descriptions. Ae~lhelic choice is pre~ent~d . as • p•r•llel compul•lion in which each choice point g1lhers together and evaluates suggest1ons. When feted w•lh difficulties these choices cen be postponed. The order in which inter-dependent choices are made is influenced by the focus of the problem.