Quantifying Aesthetics of Visual Design Applied to Automatic Design

In this thesis, the author makes several contributions to thestudy of design of graphical materials. The thesis begins with a review of therelationship between design and aesthetics, and the use of mathematical modelsto capture this relationship. Then, a novel method for linking linguistic concepts to colorsusing the Latent Dirichlet Allocation Dual Topic Model is proposed.  Next, the thesis studi...