The automatic synthesis of abstract textures is, to some extent, feasible. As evidenced by abstract art theoreticians, one can think of an abstract picture as a tree of elementary shapes interacting according to a short list of compositional laws such as occlusion, exclusion and bordering, and by rendering rules such as transparency, tessellation and color selection. Randomizing the shape generator and the composition and rendering laws yields an algorithm generating random abstract textures. We have designed a user-friendly online tool that implements this algorithm.

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Cubist: In this automatic composition the area of the drawing was first divided into rectangles by a random procedure. Then random circles and pentagons were drawn with the tessellation technique. (see www.jmandla.com for more details)

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One night in town: In this composition a collection of abstract shapes is drawn with the occlusion rendering technique (see www.jmandla.com for more details)

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Encadré: Architectural video of a fully random composition: a first layer is designed using random warped rectangles with tessellation. A second layer is designed using, randomly, abstract shapes and active lines with transparency and spot light effect. Finally a picture frame with random periodic patterns and spot light effect is included.

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