Terry,
So we seem to agree that the two big problems with most of what gets called "color theory" is that it’s not a theory and it’s not correct.
Your list of example outcomes is interesting:
> design a different car and the outcomes include changes to congestion, wage inequality, demographic distribution of residence, road accident rates, crime rates and a host of other factors.
but I’m failing to connect any of that (with the possible exception of accident and crime rates) to color and I’m not sure why understanding color perception as incremental vs. infinitely variable affects how we think.
The only thing I’m coming up with is something like looking at accident rates and various sorts of color contrast (say, hue, value, and saturation) to each car’s environment; that or maybe similarity of the paint of cars stolen to that of cars sold.
So in answer to
> Does this help?
I’d have to say yes, but not much.
It’s clear that you’re thinking of something specific but by keeping your cards close to the vest, you’ve made it impossible to answer your question.
Gunnar
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