Almost 10 years ago, I was the primary supervisor of a PhD student (now Dr Caradee Wright at the CSIR in Pretoria, South Africa) who was researching skin cancer primary prevention opportunities in primary...
Here is part 7 of our series of excerpts from the 1921 book, “A Grammar of Color.” In part 6, we began the chapter “A Practical Description of the Munsell Color System With Suggestions For Its Use”,...
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...
Published in 1913, the Atlas of the Munsell Color System, was the first publication that fully illustrated the Munsell system of color measurement. It covers the 3 color scales, the color tree, notation...
Tom Parish Interviews Munsell for His Podcast About Color
Tom Parish has professionally worked with color for years and has been exploring the science and language of color in-depth since discovering...
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...
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...
We continue with our series of excerpts from the 1921 book, A Grammar of Color. The previous excerpts covered the chapters written by A.H. Munsell himself, entitled “An Introduction to the Munsell Color...
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...
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...