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The seven colours of the prism

2025· dissertation· en· W7115030820 on OpenAlexaff

Bibliographic record

VenueeScholarship@McGill (McGill) · 2025
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldPhysics and Astronomy
TopicOptical and Acousto-Optic Technologies
Canadian institutionsCentre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPrismPianoPerceptionPatienceReflection (computer programming)Style (visual arts)Chromatic scaleMusical instrument
DOInot available

Abstract

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The Seven Colours of the Prism is a piano quintet inspired by the physical phenomena of light and colour, particularly the refraction and Tyndall effect observed through stained-glass windows in churches.The image of sunlight scattering prismatic hues across surfaces forms the core inspiration for this composition.The piano and strings serve as vessels for sound refraction, translating this visual experience into musical language.Each of the seven colours is manifested through distinctive harmonic, rhythmic, and timbral materials, shaped by my immediate emotional responses and associative imagery.By synthesizing personal perception with cultural connotations, the piece constructs an auditory prism that not only recreates light's chromatic transformations but, more importantly, enables listeners to "hear" the vibrant resonance of colours.First and foremost, I extend my profound appreciation to my supervisor, Nicole Lize, whose unwavering guidance, intellectual rigour, and boundless patience have shaped this work in countless ways.Her profound expertise and ability to navigate both technical precision and creative vision have been a constant source of inspiration.Nicole's mentorship not only refined my compositional practice but also instilled in me the confidence to explore unconventional ideas.This thesis would not exist without her insightful critiques, steadfast encouragement,

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.012
Threshold uncertainty score0.040

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.006
Scholarly communication0.0030.002
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0010.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0120.003

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.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.223
Teacher spread0.215 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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