AARON is a software program written by artist Harold Cohen

Harold Cohen (artist)

Harold Cohen is a British-born artist who is noted as the creator of AARON-External links:*...

 that creates original artistic images.

Proceeding from Cohen's initial question "What are the minimum conditions under which a set of marks functions as an image?", AARON has been in continual development since 1973. The name "AARON" does not seem to be an acronym, rather it was a name chosen to start with the letter "A" so that the names of successive programs could follow it alphabetically.

Initial versions of AARON created abstract drawings that grew more complex through the 1970s.