RFR-6EC06AD0 — Create a shared benchmark and decision threshold: Itten Color Contrasts — Research Cycle 1

Research opportunity

Create a shared benchmark and decision threshold for the claims or recommendations in “Itten Color Contrasts — Research Cycle 1.”

Background

The originating artifact is accepted by the repository publishing inventory with status “complete.” Its Question section provides the immediate evidence boundary.

Evidence trace

• Origin document: content/projects/itten-color-contrasts/research-journal/2026-07-28-cycle-1.md
• Section: Question
• Specific assumption challenged: The source's treatment in “Question” is sufficiently supported for its intended scope.
• Supporting evidence excerpt: “Which of Itten's seven contrasts remain scientifically defensible, what mechanisms and boundaries replace his explanations, and which claims should become engineering rules?”
• Reason this opportunity exists: How competing methods or implementations compare on a common corpus with explicit utility, safety, and cost thresholds.

Unknowns

• How competing methods or implementations compare on a common corpus with explicit utility, safety, and cost thresholds.

Dependencies

• RFR-39B8813B

Suggested REP and methodology

• Suggested REP: REP-RJ-VE-ITTEN-001-BENCHMARK
• Methodology: Curate representative cases, blind ground truth where possible, define baselines and uncertainty-aware metrics, and run reproducible benchmark evaluations.
• Expected outputs: Versioned benchmark, baseline implementations, scoring harness, datasheet, and adoption decision rule.
• Success criteria: Independent teams can reproduce scores and the benchmark discriminates meaningful quality differences without rewarding proxy gaming.
• Recommended agent: research-engineering-agent
• Estimated effort: Medium
• Expected knowledge gained: How competing methods or implementations compare on a common corpus with explicit utility, safety, and cost thresholds.

Evaluation

Confidence in this opportunity: moderate. Status: Open.