The complement is CMYK

The bit-complement n ↦ 63−n is the additive↔subtractive colour duality: red↔cyan, green↔magenta, blue↔yellow, black↔white — the CMYK hardware merkaba.

proof · the complement is the CMYK duality

The hexagram's yin↔yang complement (n ↦ 63−n) is the additive↔subtractive colour duality: flipping every pole maps the 3 RGB primaries to the 3 CMY primaries — red↔cyan, green↔magenta, blue↔yellow — plus black↔white, because RGB (additive light) and CMY (subtractive ink) are exact complements (C = 255−R, M = 255−G, Y = 255−B). The 8 RGB-cube corners are 4 complement pairs, and CMY + K(black) = CMYK, the print colour model the project already carries as its hardware colour merkaba.

checks — recomputed live in your browser

• ✓ Cyan Is Inverse Red
• ✓ Magenta Is Inverse Green
• ✓ Yellow Is Inverse Blue
• ✓ Holds

evidence

Cmyk

C, M, Y, K

✓ all checks hold · recompute recipe — a pure function of the model seed, run client-side with zero tokens; the same seed always folds to the content-address 8151e18e-0249-81bb-9b08-a67b295135fb. Recompute and you get the same address — that determinism is the proof.

Real colour theory — RGB and CMY are complementary primary sets (additive vs subtractive), and the bitwise pole-complement (the project's reverse) realizes it exactly; K is added for printing. NOT a claim the I Ching or the genetic code is "about" CMYK — only that the same complement operation is the additive↔subtractive flip. The hardware-merkaba CMYK mapping (memory·gpu·storage·cpu → C·M·Y·K) is the project's design metaphor, not a physical identity.