Practice question · Estimate
Chevreul built a chromatic circle for the Gobelins in which complementaries sit diametrically opposite. How many hues did he divide it into?
Estimate on a scale from 0 hues (0) to 120 hues (120).
Hints
- Twelve principal hues, each divided several ways.
- Twelve times six.
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72 (answers within ±8 count)
Why
72: twelve principal hues each split six ways. The number matters only because it fixes the arithmetic of his system: complements lie half a circle apart, so a hue's complement is the one 36 steps around, and a dyer could look it up rather than argue about it.
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