How Thinking Inside the Box can become Thinking Outside the Box

Abstract

While it remains a central reference for work in com-putational creativity, Boden¿s exploration/transformation model can be interpreted as having different meanings at the application level. As a result, programmers devel-oping creative systems may have difficulty in realising the theory¿s practical value. The paper develops a for-malisation which recasts the key elements in quantitative terms while reinterpreting the exploration/transformation distinction as a continuum. This has the effect of making the framework more amenable to practical application in the system-building context.