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Is there a simple formula to take numbers obtained by matching paint samples to the 1929 Munsell book and convert them to the numbers that would be obtained using the current Munsell book?

April 26, 2017book Formula matching Munsell Numbers obtained paint samples simple

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Is there a simple formula to take numbers obtained by matching paint samples to the 1929 Munsell book and convert them to the numbers that would be obtained using the current Munsell book?

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There is not a simple relationship. The Munsell renotation experiments published in the Journal of the Optical Society of America in the 1940s included the revised (current) designations, but not a relationship back to the 1929 book.