colour.munsell_value

colour.munsell_value(Y, method='ASTM D1535-08')[source]

Returns the Munsell value \(V\) of given luminance \(Y\) using given method.

Parameters:
  • Y (numeric or array_like) – luminance \(Y\).
  • method (unicode, optional) – {‘ASTM D1535-08’, ‘Priest 1920’, ‘Munsell 1933’, ‘Moon 1943’, ‘Saunderson 1944’, ‘Ladd 1955’, ‘McCamy 1987’}, Computation method.
Returns:

Munsell value \(V\).

Return type:

numeric or ndarray

Notes

Domain Scale - Reference Scale - 1
Y [0, 100] [0, 1]
Range Scale - Reference Scale - 1
V [0, 10] [0, 1]

References

[ASTMInternational89], [Wik07d]

Examples

>>> munsell_value(12.23634268)  # doctest: +ELLIPSIS
4.0824437...
>>> munsell_value(12.23634268, method='Priest 1920') # doctest: +ELLIPSIS
3.4980484...
>>> munsell_value(12.23634268, method='Munsell 1933') # doctest: +ELLIPSIS
4.1627702...
>>> munsell_value(12.23634268, method='Moon 1943') # doctest: +ELLIPSIS
4.0688120...
>>> munsell_value(12.23634268, method='Saunderson 1944')
... # doctest: +ELLIPSIS
4.0444736...
>>> munsell_value(12.23634268, method='Ladd 1955') # doctest: +ELLIPSIS
4.0511633...
>>> munsell_value(12.23634268, method='McCamy 1987') # doctest: +ELLIPSIS
array(4.0814348...)