The main purpose of this study was to highlight some historical and cultural perspectives of the essence of the “sacred instrument” designated by Yantra. This is achieved not only by scientific and technological progression, but also through the change of paradigm in the values of human being in order to manifest some Divine qualities on Earth, such as love, abundance, happiness and well-being with others. Yantra is an Indian Sacred artefact that might help an observer to transcend the dualism of the physical world described both in Indian art through the Rasa and science through the Logic of the Included Third of Transdisciplinarity. Yantra is considered to have been divinely revealed to Indian sages who have challenged some mathematicians in the building of figures of such complexity. Thus, the artist and/or engineer and the object created (whether it be a work of art or science) are interconnected through the “conscious mind”. Nowadays, due to their importance, there is an attempt to draw them through computational art area (contemporary technology), under the “human-centered computing” category with emphasis on “visualization” and “interaction design”. This researcher has suggested that a deeper study of this sacred Indian symbol (consisting of several polygons composed of the intersection of many triangles) is required in the future because it demands the cooperation of experts from different areas of knowledge, such as mathematicians, engineers, historians, psychologists, artists in order to solve a large number of conceptions and calculations that current computers are not able to perform accurately.
Author(s) Details:
Paulo Nuno Martins,
CTEC, Fernando Pessoa University of Oporto, CIUHCT, New University of Lisbon, Portugal.
Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/RRAASS-V4/article/view/13236
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