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Autumn Colors

Munsell Book

Programs & Macros

Obtaining & Unpacking

This database consists of various color spectra sets that are measured from many different kinds of coloured samples. The purpose of this database is to function as a source of color spectra from where people can get spectra sets via WWW or anonymous ftp.

There are ten different databases available in graphical form, which are devided to parts according to the size of the database. The number of parts are shown in parenthesis. Databases are:

• Munsell colors matt (AOTF measured) (13)
• Munsell colors matt (Spectrofotometer measured) (13)
• Munsell colors glossy (Spectrofotometer measured) (1)
• Munsell colors glossy (all) (Spectrofotometer measured)
• Natural colors (3)
• Forest colors (11)
• Paper spectra (7)
• Candy colors (1)
• Lumber spectra (3)
• Agfa IT8.7/2 set (3)
• Daylight spectra (1)

Select database and the part you want to browse and press Load button to load spectra to the applet. NOTICE, that there is some delay on loading the spectra.

	There is also picture database Autumn Colors.
	You can take closer look of Munsell Book of Color.
	Some available C-programs and Matlab macros to use with spectra.
	How to obtain color spectra from database and how to unpack loaded files?

These pages may be freely used for scientific purposes. Please refer to these pages using www-address http://cs.joensuu.fi/~spectral/ as a reference. Especially, please notify this when using our spectral databases.