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MunsellBooks: The Munsell Chips present in Specialized and Full Munsell Books

Description

In addition to the standard glossy and matte books, Munsell publishes books for specialized fields. For 5 of these specialized books, we use a paper by Ferguson, which gives the chip contents of books for these fields: soil, rocks, beads, and plants. It also includes newstudent Color Set, see References.
For the full glossy and matte books, see Source.

Acknowledgements

The conversion of the 5 specialized books data to ./inst/extdata/Supplement1_3.6.2024.csv was done by Willie Ondricek, who provided all the motivation for this function. He also kindly provided photographs of the soil book, and much other material.

Format

MunsellBooks is a data.frame with 1753 rows and these columns:

HVC	a matrix with 3 columns: Hue, Value, and Chroma. For the chromatic chips, Hue is a positive multiple of 2.5, except for 3 chips in the bead book which are odd multiples of 1.25. For the achromatic neutral chips, Hue is really undefined, but here it is set to 0. Value is always a positive multiple of 0.25, and between 0.5 and 9.5. Chroma is a non-negative integer between 0 and 16, except 13 and 15 are omitted.
	FergusonName
the color name of the chip, as assigned by Ferguson. If a chip does not appear in one of the 5 specialized books, it is set to NA.
bead	a logical value. If TRUE then the chip appears in the bead book
	newstudent
a logical value. If TRUE then the chip appears in the newstudent book
plant	a logical value. If TRUE then the chip appears in the plant book
	rock
a logical value. If TRUE then the chip appears in the rock book
soil	a logical value. If TRUE then the chip appears in the soil book
	glossy
a logical value. If TRUE then the chip appears in the glossy book
matte	a logical value. If TRUE then the chip appears in the matte book

The rows are sorted first by Hue, then Value, and then Chroma, all in increasing order. Thus the achromatic neutral chips come first, followed by the chromatics.

Details

The chip counts in the 7 books are:

Book	| Neutral Chips |	Chromatic Chips |	Total Chips |
Soil	10	427	437
Rock	9	106	115
Bead	5	171	176
Plant	0	332	332
New Munsell Student	8	238	246
Glossy	37	1485	1522
Matte	32	1269	1301

The union of all 7 books has 1753 chips. There are only 3 inclusions among the books: Rock \(\subset\) Glossy, Plant \(\subset\) Glossy, and New_Munsell_Student \(\subset\) Matte.

References

Ferguson, Jonathan. Munsell notations and color names: Recommendations for archaeological practice. Journal of Field Archaeology. 39:4. 327-335. (2014). Online Supplement #1.

Long, J. T. The New Munsell Student Color Set. New York: Fairchild Books. 2011.

Munsell Color. Munsell Soil-Color Charts. Grand Rapids, MI: 2009.

Munsell Color. Geological Rock-Color Chart. GrandRapids, MI: 2009.

Munsell Color. Munsell Bead Color Book. Grand Rapids, MI: 2012.

Munsell Color. Munsell Color Charts for Plant Tissues. New Windsor, NY: 1977.

See Also

roundHVC()

Examples

str(MunsellBooks)

## 'data.frame':   1753 obs. of  9 variables:
## $ HVC         : num [1:1753, 1:3] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...
##  ..- attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2
##  .. ..$ : NULL
##  .. ..$ : chr [1:3] "H" "V" "C"
## $ FergusonName: chr  NA NA "Black" NA ...
## $ bead        : logi  FALSE FALSE TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE ...
## $ newstudent  : logi  FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE ...
## $ plant       : logi  FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE ...
## $ rock        : logi  FALSE FALSE TRUE FALSE FALSE FALSE ...
## $ soil        : logi  FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE ...
## $ glossy      : logi  TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE ...
## $ matte       : logi  FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE FALSE TRUE ...