Colours and pitch - reference (one approach which sorta works)

I explored the theoretical colour to pitch relationship a few years ago, and despite attempting to plot the red, green, and blue values to wavelength
(with ///|///|//// - type graphical patterns for each r,g,or b); (each value rises as the wavelength changes, then suddenly drops - I have since lost
the coloured graphic I made of it).

I eventually gave up and just used my eyes subjectively as a guide to choosing the named colours.

You can see my subjective 1980's results at:

http://www.lucytune.com/academic/freq_to_wave.html
http://www.lucytune.com/new_to_lt/pitch_04.html

Having made my choices, I was then stuck with them, as I have used the mapping consistently on all my webpages on assorted sites ;-)

I appreciate that there are many alternative ways of mapping this, including what one of my synaesthetic friends "sees" in 12edo, which is shown on this page:

http://www.harmonics.com/myron/hccs/seal.html

I hope this is useful to someone;-)

Charles Lucy - lucy@harmonics.com
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--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Charles Lucy <lucy@h...> wrote:
> I explored the theoretical colour to pitch relationship a few
years
> ago, and despite attempting to plot the red, green, and blue
values
> to wavelength
> (with ///|///|//// - type graphical patterns for each r,g,or b);
> (each value rises as the wavelength changes, then suddenly drops -
I
> have since lost
> the coloured graphic I made of it).
>
> I eventually gave up and just used my eyes subjectively as a guide
to
> choosing the named colours.
>
> You can see my subjective 1980's results at:
>
> http://www.lucytune.com/academic/freq_to_wave.html
> http://www.lucytune.com/new_to_lt/pitch_04.html
>
> Having made my choices, I was then stuck with them, as I have used
> the mapping consistently on all my webpages on assorted sites ;-)

The Lucy-tuned colors that you show in the last part of the second
link are in general agreement with what Dave and I arrived at in the
course of our speculation.

--George