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==Cultural significance==
Form constants have a relationship to some forms of abstract art, especially the [[visual music]] tradition, as [[William Wees]] noted in his book ''Light Moving in Time'' about research done by German psychologist Heinrich Klüver on the form constants resulting from
{{quote|[Klüver’s] analysis of hallucinatory phenomena appearing chiefly during the first stages of mescaline intoxication yielded the following form constants: [emphasis original] (a) grating, lattice, fretwork, filigree, honeycomb, or chessboard; (b) cobweb; (c) tunnel, funnel, alley, cone or vessel; (d) spiral. Many phenomena are, on close examination, nothing but modifications and transformations of these basic forms. The tendency towards "geometrization," as expressed in these form constants, is also apparent in the following two ways: (a) the forms are frequently repeated, combined, or elaborated into ornamental designs and mosaics of various kinds; (b) the elements constituting these forms, such as squares in the chessboard design, often have boundaries consisting of geometric forms.<ref>Wees, William C. Light Moving in Time: Studies in the Visual Aesthetics of Avant-Garde Film, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), p. 66.</ref>}}
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