GEOMETRY:

SQUARES

The 3 primary colours present as 3 squares

Colour Wheel

We've got the yellow square:

Colour Wheel

the red square:

Colour Wheel

and the blue square:

Colour Wheel

This page is analogous to the first colours page:


Primary Colours

which ended with this visual:

Colour Wheel

The circle of 5ths with the three primary colours inscribed

This gives us three squares

Let's look at the yellow one

Colour Wheel

Each corner of the square is a note,

which gives us the 4 yellow notes:

Colour Wheel

Within this square we can see minor 3rd intevals on every edge or line of the square:

Colour Wheel

And both the tritone intervals within the diminished chord:

Colour Wheel

This square shows us the symetrical and cyclic nature of the diminished chord

which doesnt show up quite so clearly on our instruments

We get the same interval structure of minor 3rds and tritones in the blue and red squares also:

Colour Wheel Colour Wheel

Conclusion:

The primary colours are squares,

Next up we're going to make secondary colours with alpha cubes

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