Crowd-powered parameter analysis for computational design exploration

Abstract

Exploring various visual designs by tweaking parameters is a common practice when designing digital content. For example, if we want to clean up a photo for use at the top of a web page, we adjust the design parameters---brightness, contrast, saturation, etc.---to explore which combination of parameters provides the best result. Similar situations can be found anywhere in computer graphics applications, such as tweaking shader parameters for game development.