*Assembling a scrapbook seems to be what New Aestheticians do.
http://urbanhonking.com/ideasfordozens/2012/04/08/a-menagerie-of-cv-markers/
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"In his post Why the New Aesthetic isn’t about 8bit retro, the Robot Readable World, computer vision and pirates, Rev Dan Catt tries to address the 8-bit quality of much New Aesthetic visual work. Specifically, he’s trying to answer a criticism of NA as retro, a throwback to “the colors and 8 bit graphics of the 80s” as Tom Coates put it.
"For Catt that resemblance comes from the primitive state of computer vision today. “Computer vision isn’t very advanced, to exist with machines in the real world we need to mark up the world to help them see”, he says. In other words, the current limitations of computer vision algorithms require intentionally designed bold blocky 8-bit graphics for them to function. And therefore the markers we design to meet this requirement end up looking like primitive computer graphics, which resulted from similar technical limitations in the systems that produced them. As Catt says, “put another way, current computer vision can probably ‘see’ computer graphics from around 20–30 years ago.”
"In a conversation about this idea, Kyle McDonald
(((He's a hard-working guy, Kyle McDonald; check out this remarkable Processing artwork he built:)))
http://openprocessing.org/sketch/31195
"argued that Catt’s taking the comparison too far. While there is a functional comparison between the current state of computer vision and the state of computer graphics in the 80s, the actual markers we’re using in CV work today don’t much resemble 8-bit graphics aesthetically.
"To explore this idea, Kyle and I decided to put together a collection of as many different kinds of markers as we could think of along with links to the algorithms and processes that create and track them (though I’m sure there are many we’ve missed – more contributions are welcome in the comments). It was our hope that such a collection might widen the New Aesthetic visual vocabulary by adding additional ingredients as well as focusing some attention on the actual computational techniques used to create and track these images...."
