A Braided Effort: A Mathematical Analysis of Compositional Options

Year: 2006 Authors: James Mai; Daylene Zielinski

Core claim

Interdisciplinary analysis of eight permutational archetypes enabled a coherent braided ordering for Epicycles and revealed benefits of artist-mathematician collaboration.

Topics

permutations, compositional ordering, interdisciplinary collaboration, visual symmetry

Domains

permutation groups, equivalence classes, Hamiltonian paths, digital print, abstract composition, visual symbolism, color design

Methods

form derivation, symmetry reduction, graph analysis, aesthetic visualization

Media

semi-circular arcs, quartercircles, digital print, color gradation

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