  Aesthetics, among other criteria, can be statistically examined in terms of
the complexity required for creating and decrypting a work of art. We propose
three laws of aesthetic complexity. According to the first law of aesthetic
complexity, too condensed encoding makes a decryption of a work of art
impossible and is perceived as chaotic by the untrained mind, whereas too
regular structures are perceived as monotonous, too orderly and not very
stimulating. Thus a necessary condition for an artistic form or design to
appear appealing is its complexity to lie within a bracket between monotony and
chaos. According to the second law of aesthetic complexity, due to human
predisposition, this bracket is invariably based on natural forms; with rather
limited plasticity. The third law of aesthetic complexity states that aesthetic
complexity trends are dominated by the available resources, and thus also by
cost and scarcity.
