research-document RJ-VE-ITTEN-002

Itten Color Contrasts — Experiment Pilot Cycle

Experiment pilot cycle

Purpose

Move every proposed experiment from an undeveloped research gap to a reproducible pilot, an explicit result, a protocol, and a continuation state—without confusing model output with human or physical measurement.

Execution record

  • Script: scripts/itten-color/run-computational-pilots.mjs
  • Seed: 20260728
  • Experiments: 8
  • Latest script SHA-256: e6f6ebae61ef8a1ff13c657b11d16b11f3981bb85a2040861e0bdf4b16d69996
  • Output directory: ../experiments/data/
  • Participant count: 0
  • Physical devices measured: 0
  • Human-subject conclusions promoted: 0

Results checkpoint

Experiment Completed result Interpretation boundary
EX-ITTEN-001 288-condition salience pipeline recovered generating sensitivities cannot validate area ratios
EX-ITTEN-002 72 pairs showed metric-ranking disagreement cannot select a perceptual winner
EX-ITTEN-003 48-condition adaptation proxy generated recovery predictions values are not HDR thresholds
EX-ITTEN-004 792-condition CVD/aging audit flagged degradation not clinical detection rates
EX-ITTEN-005 toy power reached .861 at n=240/stratum final power needs empirical variance
EX-ITTEN-006 ambient/reflection sweep reduced modeled effective contrast no named display measured
EX-ITTEN-007 100-condition proxy predicted eccentricity degradation not human peripheral thresholds
EX-ITTEN-008 3,000-pair stress test found cross-metric rho=.7824 no perceptual ground truth

Where work should resume

The immediate software task is EX-ITTEN-008: implement and unit-test ΔE00, CAM16-UCS, and Jzazbz so EX-ITTEN-002 stimuli can be sampled without bias toward only Lab/Oklab. The immediate physical task is hardware inventory for EX-ITTEN-003/006. The immediate human-research tasks are ethics/consent review, recruitment partnerships, and calibrated stimulus reliability pilots.

Each experiment report includes its next action, controls, measures, analysis, and explicit missing evidence. No stage should be advanced from “pending” until the raw measurements and analysis provenance are attached.