Form and Void: Entangled Composition through an Autonomous AI Agent
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Abstract (arXiv)
Positive and negative space is a fundamental principle in visual composition, supporting visually coherent forms and layered semantic relationships. Generating such compositions is challenging because it requires coordinated control over two semantic concepts that share a common boundary. Although recent text-to-image models and multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved strong performance in image generation and visual understanding, positive-negative space generation remains difficult, particularly under direct single-pass prompting. In this work, we present the Form and Void Agent (FaV-A), a multimodal agent designed for staged positive-negative space generation. FaV-A follows a progressive workflow: it first generates a base object, then analyzes its shape and spatial structure to identify candidate negative-space semantics, and finally produces compositional instructions for the final image generation stage. Experimental results and ablation analyses suggest that FaV-A provides a more effective framework than direct zero-shot MLLM baselines for producing visually coherent and semantically aligned positive-negative space compositions.
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