Shiva: Two Views of Burnside’s Lemma at Work

Year: 2007 Authors: James Mai; Daylene Zielinski

Core claim

Burnside’s Lemma helps identify visually distinct arc-forms in Shiva: World Ages and reveals a second, more meaningful view of the painting’s circular transformations.

Topics

Burnside’s Lemma, permutations, symmetry, painting composition

Domains

group theory, enumerative combinatorics, symmetry analysis, painting, abstract composition, visual symbolism

Methods

permutation enumeration, trial-and-error diagramming, symmetry classification

Media

quarter-circle arcs, square canvas, painted abstraction

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