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representing the animals of the country he is making a draw. ing of a kangaroo. ..... Which did not mean that AARON proceeded to draw real ...

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Figure 1: AARON drawing 1987Page 1Figure 1: AARON drawing 1987HOW TO DRAW THREE PEOPLE IN A BOTANICAL GARDEN. Harold Cohen The University of California at San Diego Department of Visual Arts La Jolla Ca 92093 Abstract AARON is a program designed to investigate the cognitive principles underlying visual representation. Under continuous development for fifteenyears it is now able autonomously to make"freehand" drawings of people in gardenlike settings. This has required a complex interplaybetween two bodies of knowledge: objectspecific knowledge of how people are constructed and how they move together with morphological knowledge of plant growth: and procedural knowledge of representational strategy. AARON's development through the events lead ing up to this recentlyimplemented knowledgebased form is discussed as an example of an"expert's system" as opposed to an "expert system." AARON demonstrates that givenappropriate interaction between domainknowledge and knowledge of representationalstrategy relatively rich representations mayresult from sparse information.Page 21 PreambleBrother Giorgio is a 12th Century scholarmonk whose task itis to record what is known of the world's geography and he iscurrently making a map of Australia an island just off the coast of India. Since an essential part of mapmaking involvesrepresenting the animals of the country he is making a drawing of a kangaroo. Now Brother Giorgio has never seen a kan garoo. But he understands from what he has been told that the kangaroo is a large ratlike creature with a pouch and with anexceptionally thick tail. And he draws it accordingly (figure 2a). Figure 2aWhile he is so engaged a traveler visits the monastery and he tells Giorgio that his drawing is wrong. For one thing andGiorgio finds this quite implausible the kangaroo doesn'tcarry a pouch its pouch is part of its belly! And says the traveler it doesn't go on all fours: it stands upright on rear legs much ...

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