FSN 221 Chapter Notes -Munsell Color System, Albert Henry Munsell, Cornflower Blue
21 Apr 2013
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Color for the real world - textbook outline. Chapter 1: the nature of colour, colour systems. 3 requirements to see colour: an object, a light source, an observer. Can be smooth, rough, flat, glossy, or curved. Can be daylight, artificial light, or a mathematical simulation. Can be a human eye, or a spectrophotometer spectrophotometer device that measures reflected or transmitted light colorimeter. A device that measures the shade, tint, value, brightness, or purity of a colour. Can also compare the colour of a liquid with a standard colour colorimetry the measurement or analysis by a colorimeter. The source of colours and their fixed natural order. Published the munsell system of color notation. Identifies colour in terms of three attributes: hue (the colour), value (lightness or darkness), chroma (the intensity) Shape of the munsell colour sphere accommodates the fact that pure hues have different value levels and different ranges of intensity.
