ON THE DIFFICULTY OF CREATING LOW-COMPLEXITY ART

This paper discusses (and exemplifies) the nature of low-complexity art without providing a general method for creating it. Although it is trivial to redraw the concrete examples shown here, they seem to appear ``out of the blue," without giving indication of how they were discovered. Nor do they give many clues about how to draw other objects. No universal algorithm for generating low-complexity art is known. At the moment, a human artist is still required.

I found it difficult to discover acceptable but algorithmically simple cartoons. I found it easier to come up with acceptable cartoons that appeared to be algorithmically complex.

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