We found a similarity between the effect of temporal chord transition in music and temporal color transition in visual perception. Human visual impressions between a color arrangement and a temporal transition from a modified arrangement to the original arrangement were compared in experiments with sensory tests. The experimental results showed that the consonance of color arrangements can be enhanced by a "pivoted" transition, in which some appearance parameters like hues and color tones are preserved, from a dissonant arrangement in comparison with a static presentation of the original arrangement. The results suggest that an enhancement effect of consonance similar to resolution of chords in music exists in a higher order mechanism of human color vision.
Akira Asano, Shinji Tatsumi, Chie Muraki Asano, Katsunori Okajima, Mikiko Kawasumi, "Temporal transition enhances the consonance of color arrangements" in Proc. IS&T 25th Color and Imaging Conf., 2017, pp 240 - 244, https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2169-2629.2017.25.240