Greenfield, GaryLaszlo Neumann and Mateu Sbert and Bruce Gooch and Werner Purgathofer2013-10-222013-10-2220053-905673-27-41816-0859https://doi.org/10.2312/COMPAESTH/COMPAESTH05/009-012To provide some background, as well as a historical context, for the Eurographics 2005 Workshop on Graphics, Visualization and Imaging we provide a chronology, complete with references, covering various research activities that invoke the term aesthetics in a computational setting. Much of the research cited focuses on the problem of making numerical assessments of the aesthetic content of works of art.Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS): K.2 [Computing Milieux]: History of Computing, J.5 [Computer Applications]: Arts and Humanities