Warmer by nature
Sri Lankan textiles recorded a warmer colour profile, with a warm-cool score of 0.178 versus −0.111 in the Japanese set.
CROSS-CULTURAL TEXTILE ANALYSIS
Textiles have
a design DNA.
JASPER maps the visual language of two textile traditions, turning colour, texture, motif and symmetry into evidence for design exchange.
WHY THIS MATTERS
Craft knowledge deserves a
future-facing vocabulary.
For Sri Lankan handloom artisans, international relevance can coexist with cultural integrity. This research establishes a measurable vocabulary for understanding what Japanese and Sri Lankan textiles express differently, and where they can speak to each other.
OBSERVED DIFFERENCES
Image analysis indicates distinct, measurable aesthetic tendencies across the two collections.
Vivid, saturated colour
Average saturation was the strongest single signature: 168.93 for Sri Lankan textiles and 102.05 for Japanese samples.
Different pattern logic
Texture, entropy, colour variance and symmetry create distinct visual rhythms, quantifiable across an image collection.
FROM WEAVE TO EVIDENCE
Every image becomes a field of signals.
JASPER turns visual character into a reproducible analysis pipeline, making cultural pattern language legible without reducing it to a single score.
View reproducible code- 01
Collect
Japanese and Sri Lankan textile specimens form the comparative corpus.
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Extract
44 visual features capture colour, complexity, texture, symmetry and geometry.
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Compare
Welch’s t-tests, effect sizes and correction identify meaningful signals.
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Translate
Evidence becomes market-fit guidance and pathways for textile design.
CULTURAL SIGNAL EXPLORER
Two traditions.
Distinct visual voices.
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warm / vivid
Richer saturation, warmth and visual variation form the Sri Lankan signature in the current sample.
AVG. SATURATION168.93
PUBLICATION FIGURES
Results you can inspect.
The study is open for reading, testing and extending. Browse the figures, source code and image dataset.
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