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Symmetry: Culture and Science
Volume 36, Number 4, pages 325-326 (2025)
https://doi.org/10.26830/symmetry_2025_4_325

SYMMETRY BETWEEN CULTURE AND SCIENCE: CLOSING 2025 AND LOOKING AHEAD

Simone Brasili, Johan Gielis

Dear Readers,

The final issue of the SCS journal for 2025 marks the end of the third year of excellent collaboration between Johan and me in editing the journal.

With the essential support of authors and reviewers, we have sought to preserve the journal’s tradition established by our beloved György Darvas while also looking ahead, aiming to reinforce the journal's visibility as an open, rigorous forum for interdisciplinary research. Going forward, we intend to revise the journal’s access model towards open access with modest Article Processing Charges (APCs) and to expand the editorial board. These actions are expected to extend the journal’s reach and amplify the impact of published articles.

At the same time, we remain convinced that SCS volumes continue to hold a distinctive position for symmetry at the intersection of science, art, mathematics, and the humanities.

The current issue clearly illustrates this aim. It begins with a historical study of symmetry in architecture, tracing its development from classical antiquity through the Renaissance to modern urban planning.

The author, Ataollah Tofigh Kouzehkanani, demonstrates how symmetry evolves from an aesthetic principle to a rational and functional one, while remaining essential.

Interdisciplinary perspectives are further explored by Agung Dwiyanto, Audy Charisma Dewi, and Arnis Rochma Harani, who analyse symmetry as a connecting concept between music and architecture, highlighting harmonic, rhythmic, and geometric correspondences.

These topics are expanded upon in Aleix Alva’s contribution, which offers a clear geometric interpretation of musical harmony.

Structural and morphogenetic aspects emerge in Pablo Miguel De Souza Sánchez’s study of Yoshimura's origami models. Here, geometric symmetry can break down under deformation, while topological invariants remain.

The issue ends with two mathematical contributions: Günhan Caglayan’s exploration of the visualization of symmetric matrices assisted by computational algebra systems and Johan Gielis’ proposal for a flexible extension of Euclidean geometry via the Superformula.

We thank all the authors for their contributions. Taken together, they demonstrate that symmetry is not a fixed rule but a domain of relationships, transformations, and invariants, continually reinterpreted across different contexts and scales.

As usual at the end of the year, we warmly wish all our readers and colleagues the very best for the coming year and invite them to share our passion for symmetry and to support the life and future of our journal, Symmetry: Culture and Science, in any way they can.