The digitized NCS dictionary, based on the sRGB values received from "NCS Colour AB", gives very good results in identifying Thai Mural Painting Colours with TCA.
March 15, 2012In my last post I was expressing my
doubt that using the NCS sRGB values, obtained from "NCS Colour
AB", will give as good results with TCA as the Munsell digital
dictionary, which I obtained by scanning the Munsell patches
on the same scanner on that I scanned the artist's samples. I was
wrong to have this doubt.
On February 13th I met the artists and showed them the
Munsell patches found by the software as good matches for the
studied colour names. Whenever TCA indicated a NCS code to be a
closer match I showed to artists the corresponding NCS patch.
Artists confirmed TCA's result, saying that the NCS colour is a
better match.
On March 5th I had another meeting with the artists and continued
to show them the colours same way I did on February 13th. In some
cases, NCS patches gave closer matches than Munsell. In other
cases, when the software couldn't find a match in the Munsell
dictionary, but could find a match in the NCS dictionary, the
corresponding NCS patch was immediately recognized by artists as
the identified colour name.
As a result, Dr. Razvan Preda and I would like to add the NCS
colour dictionary to the digital database of the distributable
version of TCA. However, we don't have yet an agreement with "NCS
Colour AB" for doing so. I wiill ask next month, after performing
some separate tests with the NCS patches, the conditions under
which we can have such an agreement.
The next meeting with artists will be Monday, March 19th.