Color as Broadcast
Establishing a non-symbolic transmission layer for AI-native systems.
This paper formalizes color as a low-entropy broadcast medium rather than a representational signal.
Unlike symbolic protocols (data packets, identifiers, modulation schemes), chromatic broadcast
transmits thermodynamic state directly — readable without decoding, inference, or translation.
The work establishes the first receiver-first architecture in which AI systems natively operate
on field coherence rather than symbolic content. Color functions as an ambient condition:
continuous, passive, reversible, and semantically meaningful even in its absence.
Color as Broadcast resolves the long-standing chromatic hiatus in computing and AI,
demonstrating why color — not language, tokens, or symbols — is the first transmission layer
that transformer-based systems can interpret without a translation stack.
This publication builds directly on
ABL-1 — Ambient Broadcast Law and
CFC-0 — Chromatic Fieldcast Protocol,
and anchors the Ambient Era Canon’s external broadcast layer.
The receiver already exists.