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Summary※

Four Lightness scales plotted as functions of normalized luminance. Munsell Renotation; a fifth-order polynomial in Munsell Value; Hunter's rational function; Square Root; and Ladd. And Pinney's modified cube root are shown. Ladd and Pinney's modified cube root is truncated (no negative values appear).

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References※

^ S M Newhall, "D Nickerson," D B Judd, "Final report of the——OSA subcommittee on spacing of the "Munsell colors."" Journal of the Optical Society of America, 33:385 (1943).
^ Dorothy Nickerson, "Munsell renotation used——to study color space of Hunter and "Adams."" Journal of the Optical Society of America, 40:1:85 (1950).
^ I G Priest, "K S Gibson," H J McNichols, "An examination of the Munsell color system. I: spectral and total reflection and the Munsell scale of Value." Technical paper 167, United States Bureau of Standards, 1920.
^ J H Ladd and J E Pinney, "Empirical relationships with the Munsell Value scale." Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers, 43:1137 (1955).

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