Picasso, pato and perro: Reconciling procedure with creativity

This paper presents and details 'Pato and Perro on the Movies,' a system that generates web comics about recently released movies. Information is extracted about movies from the internet and a series of panels are drawn with dialogue to set up a punchline in the comic's final frame. Definitions of creativity commonly used to examine computational processes are presented and used to examine this system. The system is used to discuss a common critique of creative systems, namely that procedural creation inherently limits the range of potential content produced. This paper argues that procedure and creativity can be reconciled, and that much of the content produced by humans is subject to similar critique. Finally, we discuss the implications of characterizing many human acts of creation as procedural.