Harmonic frequencies play a vital role in both
music and radio, yet color theory does nothing with harmonic frequencies. I
suspect the reason for this lies in habit. Musicians and Audio engineers think
about sound in terms of frequencies and decibels, almost ignoring wavelength. People
who work with color think in terms of wavelength not frequency. Radio engineers
have to think in terms of frequency and wavelength because they have to design
both oscillators and antennas.
Color theorists have ignored Harmonics because
Harmonics were not observed to play a major role in color mixing. Actually,
harmonics do play a major role in color mixing when you consider the
"invisible colors" completely ignored until now. Nature is consistent
after all.
Now it is time to concentrate on the properties
of the first harmonic frequency of both a radio wave, and a musical note. I am
looking for a property of harmonic relationships that will enable me to correctly
apply harmonics to Color theory. Consider the musical note C, and its first
harmonic, C above C: What is C-ish about them? On a primative instrument the
string that produces C above C is half the length of the string that produces C.
Rather than using two strings, there are "frets" that can be used to shorten
the string that produces C to 1/2, 1/4, and 1/8 its original length at will.