The Black and White Conference will follow the 2008 IS&T/SID Color Imaging Conference with a program devoted to the special challenges and solutions for black and white, two of the most important properties of a colored image. Evidence of recent interest in the blackness and whiteness of images and objects are the IDEAlliance Print Properties subcommittee on paper characterization, the SIS (Swedish Standards Institute) Workshop on the optical properties of paper, CIE Publication 163 on the Effect of Fluorescence in the Characterization of Imaging Media, and papers at recent Color Imaging Conferences.
Key topics at the meeting will include the measurement of white materials, three-color overprints versus true black, the impact of novel light sources on the rendition of colored images, very black materials, strategies for assessing black and white objects, and blackness preference.
The meeting is scheduled for Saturday, November 15, following Color Imaging Conference 16 in Portland, Oregon. Please submit abstracts to Ann Laidlaw at alaidlaw-at-xrite-dot-com.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
Title: "The New CIE Color Space Based upon the Cone Photoreceptor Fundamentals"
By: James Larimer, PhD, ImageMetrics, LLC
Location: Singapore conference room of Apple Computer at 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA 95014
When: 6:00PM, 03/06/2008, Thursday
Map: Here
Abstract:
In 2006 the CIE published a new color space standard based upon the cone photoreceptor fundamentals. This talk will describe those basis functions, a brief history from Newton through Maxwell leading to the new color space, and the additional published norms or correction factors included in the standard for age related changes in optical densities of the lens and other ocular media. The lecture will end with a discussion of multiple primary displays, metamerism, and the future potential for displays to reconstruct power spectra isometrically yielding true color images. (See Brill, M.H., Larimer, J. (2007) Metamerism and Multi-Primary Displays. Information Display, 23/7, 16-21.)
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Larimer is President of ImageMetrics, LLC. ImageMetrics provides engineering services related to the selection of task specific displays, mitigation of signal capture and processing artifacts such as jaggies, judder, and tone scale banding, and engineering issues related to color. Dr. Larimer has been a university professor and department chairmen, a program director at the National Science Foundation, and recently retired as Senior Scientist from NASA's Ames Research Center. He has held every office in the Bay Area Chapter of the SID, and served as SID VP for the Americas. He is an Associate Editor of JSID and Co-chair of the IS&T/SID 2008 Color Conference.
Last August, Prof. Mark D.Fairchild, Professor of Color Science and Director of the Munsell Color Science Laboratory in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology released an image database for research in High-Dynamic-Range (HDR) imaging. This database is called the HDR Photographic Survey.
In big corporations the hand often does not know where the foot is and then shoots itself in the foot. Now I am finally able to get at my email after my old mailbox was secretly deleted over two weeks before I got access to the new mailbox. There I found a postcard from Albuquerque I would like to share with you. It was sent by John McCann, who shot it on his HP PhotoSmart C945 camera and kindly gave permission to reproduce it in this post.
The French magazine Réponses Photo just published its fifth special edition issue. It has a very interesting survey of ink jet printers for fine arts.
Recently a colleague a few cubicles down showed me some prints he did on his HP Photosmart Pro B9180. I was impressed with the image quality and I am wondering if time is ripe for the rest of us to switch from AgX to digital photography. You get your print in just 90 seconds and as Ingeborg Tastl's fade simulator illustrates, the permanence and durability is excellent.
