Spectrum analogy
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The spectrum analogy is when we look at the spectrum of visible light we do not see a smooth uniform change of colors from one end of the spectrum to the other. What we see is a rather rapid change between the colors and a slow rate of change within a color in the spectrum. It is not because there is not a clear smooth change in the electromagnetic spectrum itself but because of the way human eyes view light and then the ways the brain processes that neural information. The light spectrum is just one of many different ways to define a continuum. Itofazcontinuums are ways that awaretheory defines grouping of itofazspaces in a continuum structure.
The spectrum concept can be applied to the continuum concept, and continuum change concept to form the spectrum change concept which can be much moe complex than a simple uniform continuum change concept.
See also: Spectrum like concept