Monday, February 28, 2011

Munsell Soil Chart



Created by professor Albert H Munsell, the munsell color chart is a color space created to identify types of soil. The difference between his method and all of the others is that is uses three color dimensions; hue, value (lightness), and  chroma (color purity).  The Hue is measured by the degrees around the horizontal circles.  Value is measured vertically from 0 to 10, black to white.  Chroma is measured from the center out starting at gray (neutral) vertical axis.  You can see these three dimensions in the picture above.

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