[split] Color annotations?

[Koen G]

Hmm, did any one summ up the (amount of) colors used in the Voynich manuscript somewhere, I wonder?

I gathered lots of data about this last year. I'm posting from my phone now, but I'll be able to share later.

One problem is that naming colors by sight is subjective. The color that passes for red in the VM is actually rusty brown. If you see it in a flower or berry it looks red but in a root it looks brown. Hence, colors need to be sampled with software.

Then the next problem is: where does one color end and another begin? If the same pigment appears in a very washed out and a very saturated form, how many colors are those? And how many shades are in between, and how many of those were meant as different colors?