The original test was pre-digital. It also served a different purpose: to map a color space (the preceding one serves to test our color vision). I belive that the key starting colors were presented in randon order, and in a very controlled enviroment. The test starts with two identical swatches. A tiny difference is then introduced by swopping one swatch for another. This may be a difference of hue or lightness. As the original color swatches were made with paint, saturation would have been difficult to adjust.
The importance of colour to so many industries meant that this experiment waas repeated multiple times over the last 100 years. It is now a very well plotted domian indeed.
You are right about color perception being multi-factorial. Hell yes. For example, beliove it or not, culture can affects the hues that we percieve, and gender can affect how intensly we see them. But Muncell's original experaimnt was very focused on providing one thing, and over the years it has proven itself many times.
An yes I have read before about the whole green/blue being the same thing in some cultures and women often seeing more colours than men. So colour seems to have a very subjective foundation, and I was curious how the science approaches that.
The original test was pre-digital. It also served a different purpose: to map a color space (the preceding one serves to test our color vision). I belive that the key starting colors were presented in randon order, and in a very controlled enviroment. The test starts with two identical swatches. A tiny difference is then introduced by swopping one swatch for another. This may be a difference of hue or lightness. As the original color swatches were made with paint, saturation would have been difficult to adjust.
Every ‘barely perceptual difference’ is treated as a unit of perception. This entre mass of units is then plotted to give us this": https://i.ytimg.com/vi/92QD0YbzLLo/hqdefault.jpg
The importance of colour to so many industries meant that this experiment waas repeated multiple times over the last 100 years. It is now a very well plotted domian indeed.
You are right about color perception being multi-factorial. Hell yes. For example, beliove it or not, culture can affects the hues that we percieve, and gender can affect how intensly we see them. But Muncell's original experaimnt was very focused on providing one thing, and over the years it has proven itself many times.