High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Swallow's Tail — Series on Catastrophes (French: La queue d'aronde — Serie des catastrophes) was the last painting of Salvador Dali, done in May 1983. It is the final work in a series based on Rene Thom's catastrophe theory. Thom suggested that in four-dimensional phenomena, there are seven possible equilibrium surfaces, and therefore seven possible discontinuities, or "elementary catastrophes": fold, cusp, swallowtail, butterfly, hyperbolic umbilic, elliptic umbilic, and parabolic umbilic. "The shape of Dali's Swallow's Tail is taken directly from Thom's four-dimensional graph of the same title, combined with a second catastrophe graph, the s-curve that Thom dubbed, "the cusp".

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