Colour Coding the Harmonic Series

Here is my colour-coding of the pitches of the harmonic series applied to Ervin Wilson’s 1965 diagram ‘The Harmonic Series as a Logarithmic Spiral’. In my colour-coding, I always map red to the fundamental pitch (usually C). I then divide the 256 increments of the RGB colour spectrum by the size of each interval from the fundamental.

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