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A Quantitative Study of Creative Leaps Lior Noy*, Yuval Hart*, Natalie Andrew*, Omer Ramote, Avi Mayo and Uri Alon Molecular Cell Biology Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot, Isreal lior.noy@weizmann.ac.il Abstract We present a novel quantitative approach for studying creative leaps. Participants explored the space of shapes composed of ten adjacent squares, searching for ‘interesting and beautiful’ shapes. By recording players’ actions we were able to quantitatively study aspects of their exploration process. In particular our goal is to identify populated sub-regions in the shape space and study the dynamics of ‘creative leaps’: a jump from one such area to anot h- Figure 1. A Symbolic representation of creative leaps. Left: ac- er. We present here the experimental system, our methods of cording to Koestler the heart of any creative act is a creative leap analysis and some preliminary results. We show that the network between two intersecting domains. Right: a hypothetical creative of shapes created by human participants is different from the class space. Solutions are grouped into two clusters. Searching within a of networks created by applying a simple random-walk algorithm. cluster requires short moves and creates similar solutions. In or- der to move to a different cluster of solutions the agent needs to Chosen shapes show an interesting negative correlation between