The Munsell color system uses a three-dimensional space to represent three basic visual psychological attributes of various surface colors, amely Hue, Value and Chroma, and labels each color sample as HV/C.
Extensive work has been carried out to transform between Munsell space and other spaces. So Is there an accurate and widely accepted transformation methods for converting Munsell color space to CIE Lab coordinates?
Guo Ying
There are several way to accomplish this:
Try reading Conference Paper Conversion between CIELAB and Munsell Hue
Like many things nowadays, there exists an R package to help you:
Documentation for package:
https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/munsellinterpol/versions/2.2-1/topics/MunsellToLab
PDF of ‘munsellinterpol’ package with more in depth instructions:
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/munsellinterpol/munsellinterpol.pdf
Good luck!
-Zach
Guo Ying
As originally specified in 1904 the Munsell colours were specified by reference set of painted samples. A report entitled "One Set of Munsell Re-renotations," by Deane B. Judd and Dorothy Nickerson was issued by the National Bureau of Standards (now NIST) in 1967. The resulting descriptive dataset is published by the Rochester Institute of Technology and quantified in terms of CIE Standard Observer chromaticity and lightness co-ordinates x,y Y. These values are also readily available, transformed into CIE L*a*b* colour co-ordinates.
See
https://www.rit.edu/cos/colorscience/rc_munsell_renotation.php
Regards David Oulton.
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