Neil Harbisson Interview – Part 3: The Sound of Color Associations
For cyborg Neil Harbisson, the visual concept of color is absent, but his world is full of color, perceived by sounds mapped to the light frequencies of colors. The antenna on his head has a camera to see colors, and … Continue reading
Neil Harbisson Interview – Part 2: Hearing Colors
In part 2 of our 6 part series on Neil Harbisson, the world’s first cyborg, we interview him about how the technology that translates color into sound works and how blending the senses of sight and hearing into a whole … Continue reading
Neil Harbisson – Part 1: Rearranging the Senses of Color Sight and Sound
A Life With Complete Color Blindness Neil Harbisson can’t see color. He never has. He was born with achromatopsia, a condition that only allows him to see in grayscale. Now think about that for a minute. Can you imagine a … Continue reading
An Archaeologist Uses Soil Color Charts to Reconstruct an Ancient Roof
Classical archaeologists studying ancient ceramics and terracotta roofing elements in Greece and Italy have been using the Munsell Soil Color Charts since the early 1970s as a standard point of reference in describing the appearance of clay-based objects and their … Continue reading
Announce and Obscure: Making Colored Smoke
The term “smoke” can be thought of as the presence of light-obscuring material in an environment’s airspace. The situation that most comes to mind is black smoke, tiny solid particulate material seen in campground fires, barbecue grills, and the occasional … Continue reading
Understanding Brown Soils: Why Archaeologists Love Munsell
A fairly common idea about archaeology is that the goal is “to dig up stuff”—bits of pottery, bones, perhaps a stone tool or a hand-wrought nail. While this is indeed part of what archaeologists do, what we look for, in … Continue reading
Mad Scientist – Assessing Soils for Wetland Mitigation Sites
By Brent Macolley, Environmental Scientist At MAD Scientist & Associates, our primary focus is ecological and wetland consulting projects. These include wetland determinations and delineations, permitting, ecological surveys and habitat characterization, as well as restoration and mitigation projects for both streams … Continue reading
Interview with Leandra Cleveland, Society of Wetland Scientists
Tell us about the Society of Wetland Scientists The Society of Wetland Scientists (SWS) is an international organization made up of over 3,500 members whose mission is to advance the wetland profession from a scientific and academic viewpoint. It is … Continue reading
“Soiled” – Punk Rock, Archaeology, and the Munsell Soil Color Book: A Love Song
I’m an archaeologist, and I’m a musician. My archaeological travels have taken me to the Etruscan sanctuary of Poggio Civitate in Tuscany, to the Isthmus of Corinth in Greece, to a Creole farm on the banks of the Mississippi, to … Continue reading
Biological Data Visualization Using the Munsell Color System
Theresa-Marie Rhyne is a visualization consultant, specializing in applying color theory to digital media and visualization. … Continue reading
