Ostwald_colour-atlas_reflectance-measurements

This repository contains the results of visible reflectance spectroscopy that have been performed on three colour atlases in the 1920s made by Verlag Unesma under the supervision of Wilhelm Ostwald. These colour atlases are currently held at the Rijksmuseum Research Library in Amsterdam under the following inventory numbers (339D32 / 339D33 and GF386G3). 
The atlases are physical representations of the colour space developed by Wilhelm Ostwald in the 1910s. They are composed of hundreds of small swatches of paint, where each one represents a specific colour and can be characterised by a hue number (ranging from F01 to F24) and a two-letter code that indicates the position of the swatch in the Ostwald colour space. 
In addition to photographs stored in the zip file, each colour swatch were measured three times with a spectrophotometer from Konica Minolta (CM-2600d), where the UV radiation had been cut-off. Subsequently, the mean and standard deviation were calculated and stored inside the Ostwald_DB.csv file. The Lab values were calculated with the help of the Colour Science python package (https://www.colour-science.org/) according to a 10° observer and a D65 illuminant.
A Jupyter notebook along with a python script have been created to help users to manipulate the data contains in the Ostwald_DB.csv file.