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The Internet is an amalgam of forms blurred under epistemological pressures. In Søren Kierkegaard’s words, under this flat shower of leveled information, where everybody is interested in everything and nothing is too trivial or too important, people just accumulate information and postpone decisions indefinitely, i.e., nobody takes action and nobody is responsible for truth — there is no mastery, just gossip. He called this the æsthetic sphere of existence, exhorting us to evolve to the ethical sphere, where we do not just accumulate information but take action and make commitments. Blogs are instruments to overcome flatness by creating opportunities for vertical activities. In this sense this blog is a view from my window — a collection of tidbits I judged relevant to computational color science and in general to the promotion of scientific excellence in areas of strategic importance for the future of research, economy and society.
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» World Wide Gamma

An experimental tool post to crowdsource the average 'gamma value' for the world wide web. To learn more about gamma you can read the FAQ and also the FQA by Charles Poynton.

Instructions
1. Use '+' and '-' buttons to make the corresponding patches above the buttons lighter or darker.
2. Create a visually equal spaced gray ramp from black on the left to white on the right. That is the jumps in lightness between neighbors should be roughly equal and the ramp should be getting progressively lighter.
3. Click on the 'Plot' button to see your results(black) plotted versus the world wide gamma(red).



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Posted by Giordano Beretta or Nathan Moroney on Friday, May 09, 2008 at 7:25:00 PM
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» Toyon Red



Terminal three of the San Francisco airport is currently hosting an exhibit on Catlinaware. These depression era ceramic products produced on Catalina island are quite striking. They were manufactured in a range of colors, including toyon red. The display about the glazes used for Catalinaware noted that in total nearly twenty different glazes were used, and many were inspired by the natural colors of the island.

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Posted by Giordano Beretta or Nathan Moroney on Thursday, May 01, 2008 at 12:03:00 PM
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» The mistery of stable images

We know optically the eye is like a simple meniscus camera that projects an image onto the retina. We also know that on the cortex there is a holomorphic map of the visual field. However we know very little of what happens in between. For example, in the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) there are seven layers, and if we stick a toothpick in a point like in a club sandwich, the layers are geometrically aligned.
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Posted by Giordano Beretta or Nathan Moroney on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 at 5:52:00 PM
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» A Color Calculator

A purely visual color calculator. No sliders, perceptual attribute correlates or instructions.


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Posted by Giordano Beretta or Nathan Moroney on Monday, April 14, 2008 at 12:18:00 PM
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» Promoting happiness

Last December I wrote a short post about a Science paper providing neurophysiological evidence for the importance of social comparison on reward processing in the human brain. The last print version of Science has a paper teaching us how we can be even happier.
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Posted by Giordano Beretta or Nathan Moroney on Friday, April 04, 2008 at 8:42:00 PM
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» CIC16 Submissions Due April 13


Conference Overview
We are delighted to invite you to the sixteenth Color Imaging Conference in Portland, Oregon. This will be the first time this conference has been held in the Pacific northwest and we anticipate another strong program of tutorials and papers in all areas of color imaging.

Author Reminder
For those of you out there considering submitting a paper to CIC 16, please keep in mind the author instructions here and the April 13th submission deadline.

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Posted by Giordano Beretta or Nathan Moroney on Thursday, April 03, 2008 at 5:26:00 PM
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» Color Chart: Reinventing Color from 1950 to Today

Carinna Parraman wrote: "Check out the Internet version of the Color Chart exhibition at MOMA in NY, it is beautifully executed and certainly worth a visit."
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Posted by Giordano Beretta or Nathan Moroney on Thursday, April 03, 2008 at 2:16:00 PM
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» Administrative note and color lawsuits

First an administrative note. Most feedback we get from you, our esteemed readers, is in the form of personal email. Only rarely are we able to generate sufficient controversy to spark a debate in the blog comment section, such as with Non-local realism, An On-Line Color Thesaurus, or yesterday's Revolutionary White Reflectance Standard for Metrology. Therefore, we are happy for every good comment we get. However, as you are aware our blog server is rather crafty, and it is difficult for us to find comments when you replace the post title with your own title. This summer HP will be upgrading to commercial blogging software and this blog will run smoother, hopefully even multilingually. In the meantime here is my answer to a comment on color lawsuits I was unable to locate.
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Posted by Giordano Beretta or Nathan Moroney on Wednesday, April 02, 2008 at 4:57:00 PM
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» Revolutionary White Reflectance Standard for Metrology

Today two color scientists at HP Labs announced the introduction of a revolutionary new white reflectance standard for metrology. This new reflectance standard is a breakthrough in terms of cost, simplicity and unique environmentally friendly disposal process. This new white standard will have broad impact in the fields of photonics, digital photography and color measurement and is available for immediate commercial and research use.

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Posted by Giordano Beretta or Nathan Moroney on Tuesday, April 01, 2008 at 1:50:00 AM
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» Haliobacteria Red



Giordano has been quite busy with blue posts recently. This is a red post.

More specifically the red of haliobacteria.

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Posted by Giordano Beretta or Nathan Moroney on Monday, March 31, 2008 at 11:01:00 AM
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» Blue rose

On next year's Valentine Day your roses might be blue. Suntory Ltd. has obtained government permission to market the world's first blue rose that it developed in 2004. The company plans to put it on sale in 2009 after building production facilities and sales outlets.
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Posted by Giordano Beretta or Nathan Moroney on Friday, March 28, 2008 at 8:15:00 PM
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» Testing Express

Thanks to Pau for hurling a link to the new PhotoShop Express online. Tried it out and found it to be an interesting combination of photo sharing and image editing with a flashy interface. It does have a button to 'turn photos into ahhhhtwork'. The back button is broken though.


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Posted by Giordano Beretta or Nathan Moroney on Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 2:31:00 PM
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» Performance update

A year ago I posted two entries on hyperthreads and multicores that were relatively popular. A short post on the the Performance Agora has an interesting comparison of the performance of the latest crop of Intel chips suggesting that the 8-way Penryn TPC-C performance now matches a 16-way Xeon of 2 years ago.

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Posted by Giordano Beretta or Nathan Moroney on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at 5:13:00 PM
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» 2008 IS&T fellows

On behalf of the 2008 IS&T Honors and Awards Committee, the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) today has announced those individuals selected for 2008 IS&T Fellowship. Fellowship is awarded to a Regular Member for outstanding achievement in imaging science or engineering.
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Posted by Giordano Beretta or Nathan Moroney on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at 6:40:00 PM
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» Research policy update

From time to time I have been posting about the research process itself, i.e., research policy. Today I will just post two links to two other blogs with recent posts on this subject.

Jon Stokes writes on ars technica on paying for secrets: national security versus tech innovation, while Neil Gunther writes on Performance Agora on USA High Tech R&D Trending Down.

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Posted by Giordano Beretta or Nathan Moroney on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at 5:46:00 PM
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» This is not Easter Blue


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Posted by Giordano Beretta or Nathan Moroney on Friday, March 21, 2008 at 9:07:00 PM
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» More on print services

My post about print services appears to have caused some confusion. While I prefer to get feedback in the form of comments, so others can also comment and a dialogue is established, here are some clarifications — at the risk of making things even muddier.

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Posted by Giordano Beretta or Nathan Moroney on Friday, March 21, 2008 at 5:32:00 PM
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» Blue iris


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Posted by Giordano Beretta or Nathan Moroney on Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 5:48:00 PM
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» Print services

Computer science — or informatics, as it is called more appropriately in Europe — has a less linear progress history than other technologies. Indeed, many a breakthrough technology was forgotten only to be reinvented several decades later. I had already posted on concurrent programming (in the comments) and color encoding.

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Posted by Giordano Beretta or Nathan Moroney on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 6:16:00 PM
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