I don't think you can ask this question as a valid question because there must be something in every action that is random, or uncontrolled. Think of the number of hairs on a good brush and the capacity of each to hold paint in varied ways and then think of the marks that paint loaded brush makes. Surely, you would agree that not each and every hair can be controlled fully, or that the resulting marks are predetermined and therefore not random. Then think of every moment of any activity at all and realize that there must be a large quantity of results that can't be planned or intended and are thus random. There is something random in every action. In every breath. In every thought. In every perception. In every intention.
Also, I suppose a snowflake is an example of good design and every snowflake is a random design. I can't imagine how there is a necessary relation between what is sometimes called good design and randomness. The presence or absence of randomness does not affect 'good' design (like a snowflake or a raindrop, or the tumbling of a rock down a cliff. wc ----- Original Message ---- From: joseph berg <[email protected]> To: aesthetics-l <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, June 28, 2012 12:59:08 AM Subject: Re: Good Aesthetic Design On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 4:42 PM, joseph berg <[email protected]> wrote: > How would you define that? > > Or is there such a thing as that? > Could an element of good aesthetic design be that nothing is random?
