Frontier analysis — Extension Ratios, Area, and Salience — Itten Color Contrasts / Experiment Report / EX ITTEN 001 Extension Area Salience

Knowledge boundary

• Source: content/projects/itten-color-contrasts/experiment-report/EX-ITTEN-001-extension-area-salience.md
• Status: computational-pilot-complete-human-study-pending
• Discipline: Measurement
• Confidence: not explicitly stated
• Primary objective: Do fixed color-area ratios predict perceived balance after luminance, chroma, position, and semantic priority are controlled? The fixed-ratio account fails if those variables explain balance and attention better than complementary area ratio, or if the preferred ratio changes materially by task or observer.
• Primary claims/evidence: Proxy-score correlations were area r=.5161 , luminance difference r=.7096 , chroma difference r=.0704 , and semantic priority r=.2286 ; score range was 0.0152–1.2586 . Because the generating model assigned those weights, these are successful pipeline-recovery results, not support for the coefficients. The run demonstrates why area alone cannot identify “visual weight.”
• Methodology: Proxy-score correlations were area r=.5161 , luminance difference r=.7096 , chroma difference r=.0704 , and semantic priority r=.2286 ; score range was 0.0152–1.2586 . Because the generating model assigned those weights, these are successful pipeline-recovery results, not support for the coefficients. The run demonstrates why area alone cannot identify “visual weight.”
• Limitations/known uncertainties: Question and falsifier: Do fixed color-area ratios predict perceived balance after luminance, chroma, position, and semantic priority are controlled? The fixed-ratio account fails if those variables explain balance and attention better than complementary area rat…

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