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The experimental method of starting with a vision and adding color to create life in the centers has predictable results: the eleven invariants.

Assertion that the process yields a specific set of color qualities, listed in the chapter.

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Eleven Morphological Invariants of Living Color
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A set of color qualities that emerge from the fundamental process, analogous to the fifteen properties; introduced in this chapter and elaborated in Book 4, chapter 7.

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The student experiment demonstrates that bad geometry prevents beautiful coloring and good geometry makes inner light almost automatic.claim0.812
Colors create light together like centers cooperating to form a larger being; the interaction intensifies each color as a center.claim0.802
The theory of centers works empirically: it has predictive force in predicting which structures people judge to have more life, across buildings, art, and natural systems.claim0.797
Alexander's summary claim in the Mid-Book Appendix that the theory meets the scientific criterion of predictive force.
In hundreds of examples, our ability to see the field of centers and to produce the centers indicated geometrically tends to produce an object which works better.claim0.795
Empirical generalisation from built examples, with no counterexample found.
Visual reasoning, often interleaved with intermediate visual states, has emerged as a promising direction in the field.claim0.789
Author's interpretive assertion on the direction of the field.
The degree of life of each center is correlated with the degree to which that center is a picture of the self, and this holds for all people, not just individuals.claim0.788
Proposition 2 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the claim that self-likeness is a universal, species-wide measure of life.
The colors that arise from the fundamental process are often highly unexpected.claim0.787
General observation from the case studies (Sala, Sarlo, Kaiser) that the right color surprises the maker.
In buildings, especially, the success of the process will be judged by the extent to which these middle-range entities appear with their own distinct symmetries, with their own definite and distinct force as strong centers.claim0.785
Proposes middle-range entity quality as the criterion for judging the success of a building process