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ISCC/IS&T 2008 Special Topics Meeting,
“Black and White Conference”
Saturday, November 15, 2008
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.
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| Posted by Giordano Beretta or Nathan Moroney on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 at 2:16:00 PM |
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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).
Note that users of older versions of Safari (ie 1.3.2) have reported that this post
is not interactive, but it has been tested with newer versions of Safari (ie 3.1.1) and the post is functional.
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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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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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| 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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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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Navy blue is the new salmon - at least for delicious.
Last week Bernard Kerr and Joshua Schachter of Yahoo! del.icio.us gave a presentation (video to be posted here) about 'Making delicious tastier' or a preview of a 'more web 2.0' version of del.icio.us. Once again as a color guy I latched on to the color changes first - the salmon highlight color for the 'saved by' field is on its way out and a blue highlight will be it's replacement.
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| Posted by Giordano Beretta or Nathan Moroney on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 5:56:00 PM |
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An upcoming Bay Area SID presentation of interest to color and imaging fans. Mark your calendar.
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.
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| Posted by Giordano Beretta or Nathan Moroney on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 at 7:49:00 PM |
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This tool post is a simple, one-click cartoon creation tool starting
from a digital image. There are a range of cartoon creation tools and
tutorials on the web but this tool is on-line and gives pretty decent
results. It generates a stylized version of the original image with
thin black lines rendering some of the edges and a significantly
reduced number of colors. You can see some examples here.
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| Posted by Giordano Beretta or Nathan Moroney on Saturday, January 12, 2008 at 4:48:00 AM |
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"What's noteworthy in each of these cases, is that bloggers, a
community typically associated with piracy, are rallying in support of
copyright." so says Lawrence Lessig quoted in a Washington Post article
about photonapping. In this case, the buzzword photonapping
does not refer to letting an image rest for a while in the afternoon so
that it is less cranky. Instead the article specifically lists numerous
instances of an individual's images having been used by a company or
corporation, without their permission. Photonapping also presumably
applies to individuals using commercial or professional images without
getting permission but the tricky thing with buzzwords is they can be
used before there is consesus about their definition. To speed this
post along though, let's just say that photonapping is when photos that
are shared online end up in unexpected places.
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| Posted by Giordano Beretta or Nathan Moroney on Wednesday, January 09, 2008 at 3:22:00 PM |
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