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    The Munsell color system is a color notation system that specifies colors based on three dimensions: hue, value (lightness), and chroma (color purity). Professor Albert Munsell developed the system between 1898-1905 to provide a rational, decimal-based method for describing colors. The system arranges colors in a three-dimensional color solid with hue arranged in color wheels, value on a vertical axis from dark to light, and chroma radiating outward from gray. A color is fully specified with three numbers for its hue, value, and chroma. Though initially imperfect, revisions to the Munsell system created one of the best perceptual models of color description that remains influential today.

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    The Munsell color system is a color notation system that specifies colors based on three dimensions: hue, value (lightness), and chroma (color purity). Professor Albert Munsell developed the system between 1898-1905 to provide a rational, decimal-based method for describing colors. The system arranges colors in a three-dimensional color solid with hue arranged in color wheels, value on a vertical axis from dark to light, and chroma radiating outward from gray. A color is fully specified with three numbers for its hue, value, and chroma. Though initially imperfect, revisions to the Munsell system created one of the best perceptual models of color description that remains influential today.

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    The Munsell color system is a color notation system that specifies colors based on three dimensions: hue, value (lightness), and chroma (color purity). Professor Albert Munsell developed the system between 1898-1905 to provide a rational, decimal-based method for describing colors. The system arranges colors in a three-dimensional color solid with hue arranged in color wheels, value on a vertical axis from dark to light, and chroma radiating outward from gray. A color is fully specified with three numbers for its hue, value, and chroma. Though initially imperfect, revisions to the Munsell system created one of the best perceptual models of color description that remains influential today.

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    In colorimetry, the Munsell color system is a color

    system that specifies colors based on three color


    dimensions, hue, lightness (called Value by Munsell),
    and Chroma (difference from gray at a given hue and
    lightness).
    Professor Albert H. Munsell, an artist, wanted to create a
    "rational way to describe color" that would use decimal
    notation instead of color names (which he felt were
    "foolish" and "misleading"). He first started work on the
    system in 1898 and published it in full form in Color
    Notation in 1905. The newer Munsell Book of Color
    continues to be used today.
    The system consists of an irregular cylinder with the
    value axis (light/dark) running up and down through it, as does the axis of the earth. Dark
    colors are at the bottom of the tree and light at the top, measured from 1 (dark) to 10 (light).
    Each horizontal "slice" of the cylinder across the axis is a hue circle, which he divided into five
    principal hues: red, yellow, green, blue, and purple, five intermediates, yellow-red, green-
    yellow, blue-green, purple-blue, and red-purple. Munsell hue is specified by selecting one of
    these ten hues, and then referring to the angle inside them from 1 to 10.
    "Chroma" was measured out from the center of the wheel, with lower chroma being less
    saturated (washed out, such as pastels). Note that there is no intrinsic upper limit to chroma.
    Different areas of the color space have different maximal chroma coordinates. For instance
    light yellow colors have considerably more potential chroma than light purples, due to the
    nature of the eye and the physics of color stimuli. This led to a wide range of possible chroma
    levels, and a chroma of 10 may or may not be maximal depending on the hue and value.
    A color is fully specified by listing the three numbers. For instance a fairly saturated blue of
    medium lightness would be 5B 5/10 with 5B meaning the color in the middle of the blue hue
    band, 5/ meaning medium lightness, and a chroma of 10.
    The original embodiment of the system (the 1905 Atlas) had some deficiencies as a physical
    representation of the theoretical system. These were improved significantly in the 1929
    Munsell Book of Color and through an extensive series of experiments carried out by the
    Optical Society of America in the 1940's resulting in the notations (sample definitions) for the
    modern Munsell Book of Color. The system is still widely used in a variety of applications and
    represents one of the best available data sets on the perceptual scaling of lightness, chroma
    and hue. Several modern systems of color measurement are built upon the foundation of the
    Munsell system.

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