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Thesis Info
- LABS ID
- 00007
- Thesis Title
- Phase Space Portraits of the Nuestra SeƱora delos Dolores of Baclayon
- Author
- Fatima Lasay
- E-mail
- fats AT up.edu.ph
- 2nd Author
- 3rd Author
- Degree
- Master of Fine Arts
- Year
- 2002
- Number of Pages
- 150
- University
- University of the Philippines
- Thesis Supervisor
- Santiago Albano Pilar
- Supervisor e-mail
- Other Supervisor(s)
- Language(s) of Thesis
- English
- Department / Discipline
- Graduate School Program, College of Fine Arts
- Copyright Ownership
- Fatima Lasay
- Languages Familiar to Author
- English, Filipino, Spanish
- URL where full thesis can be found
- Keywords
- recurrence plots, religious sculpture, dynamical systems, glass engraving,
- Abstract: 200-500 words
- This thesis investigates a contemporary idol-making that uses the mathematical concept of recurrence plots to express the magical identity that exists between sacred entities and perceptible form. This thesis presents ways by which the use of the mathematical concept of recurrence plots have assisted in determining the coloring of patterns and the design of planar symmetry for three-phase space portraits of the Dolorosa, a nineteenth-century Spanish colonial sculpture. By digitization, the additive color signals of an image of the Dolorosa were processed to yield patterns by which symmetries were motivated. This study provides a new method for pattern formation that artists can utilize where aesthetics and mathematics converge using analog and digital studio materials and processes. Recurrence plots and the use of software that explore their importance as visual qualitative analysis tools deserve further investigation by artists who seek new modes of creating new symbols.