From ethno-mathematics to generative design: metapatterns and interactive methods for the creation of decorative art
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The research discussed in This work focuses on the development of interactive methods to image and analyze the surface designs of cultural artifacts and the generation of new designs. The project is interdisciplinary and uses methodologies from aesthetic and cultural inquiry, mathematics and computer science. The results of the research are obtained by using a combination of tools, such as neural networks, pattern recognition techniques including edge detection, and pattern generating techniques such as shape grammars. The first phase of this research focuses on the analysis of Congolese Kuba cloth and Moroccan Zillij mosaics because each has a complete and complex surface pattern with very different characteristics. Our work has three main facets: the description of the geometric content of ethno-mathematical artifacts; the classification of this content; and the generation of grammatical rules for the creation of new designs based on the studied artifacts.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it