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‘Biochromatology’ can be defined as the study of the relationships between colours, and between colours and design in nature. Certain laws concerning biochromatics can be formulated in the terminology of the Colour Circle. One of them is that planes in warm colours and planes in cold colours never adjoin. Another law is that design is never polychromatic. It seems that the observed biochromatical facts can be explained with the help of the principle “optimal manifestation of colour”, which in turn is based on the formative principles of matter itself.
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Peterich, L. Biological chromatology. The laws of colour and design in nature. Acta Biotheor 21, 24–46 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01556336
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01556336