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Measuring Urban Beauty with GPT
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  • Release Date: 2025-05-08
  • living structure
  • structural beauty
  • Christopher Alexander
  • AI in design
  • human-centered design
Video Introduction

This video is adapted from 10.3390/ai6040074

Introducing Beautimeter – an AI-powered tool revolutionizing how we assess architectural and urban beauty. Leveraging GPT-4o's advanced capabilities, this innovative system evaluates designs based on Christopher Alexander's 15 properties of living structures, including levels of scale, thick boundaries, and local symmetries.

By analyzing images of buildings, urban spaces, and even artworks, Beautimeter quantifies aesthetic coherence, offering architects and planners data-driven insights into what makes spaces feel truly "alive." Case studies demonstrate its versatility – from assessing cityscapes to carpets – revealing how AI can decode the timeless principles of beauty.

More than just a rating tool, Beautimeter bridges computational analysis and human-centric design, empowering creators to build environments that resonate deeply. As architecture embraces AI, this technology opens new frontiers for designing meaningful, life-enhancing spaces.

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