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3 Questions: Beyond data-driven aesthetics

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In a new Keller Gallery exhibition, Alexandros Haridis SM ’17, PhD ’22 traces centuries of ideas about aesthetic judgment and explores how design can make complex computational systems visible.

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arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 4

Editable Visual Design

Editable Visual Design introduces a new design paradigm that combines a Coding Agent with a Vision‑Language Model (VLM) and an image generation model. The VLM acts as the creative brain, understanding requirements, planning tasks, and judging aesthetics, while the image generator produces isolated visual assets on demand. The agent follows an "imagine first, then act" workflow, generating assets, writing native HTML/CSS, and refining the design through visual feedback, ultimately producing editable, layer‑wise artifacts with real text that can be adjusted via a graphical interface.

By Junyan Ye, Wei Liu, Dongzhi Jiang, Zichen Wen, HaoDong Li, Zhutao Lv, Jiaxin Lin, Jinhua Yu, Jun He, Zilong Huang, Rui Chen, Weijia Li