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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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.
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.
Like carved magnolia leaves.
"It was found that the magnitude of individual difference in harmony estimation significantly differed depending on the degree of harmony: disharmonious color combinations gave much smaller individual differences than did harmonious color combinations."
My further simplification and generalization of this statement is that we are more likely to agree which colors don't go well together than we are to agree which colors go well together.
Of course without reading the full text of the paper and the experiment this is maybe too much of a generalization but this possible asymmetry seems possible to me. That is I can imagine less disagreement in a room full of designers about which colors don't go well together than I can about which ones go well together. Now I should also note I don't really know that much about the bipolarity of affection but find the idea that "color harmony and color disharmony are not processed in one and the same stage" to be plausible.
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.
Our regular reader RocketRoo has recently contributed an interesting comment to the post on non-local realism of last April. A long time has past since then, and as this comment is more of a two-post than a comment, I am taking the liberty to repost it here. This is the second part:
Color identification is easy and visual attention is top down.
A month ago jlrevilla commented on my 30 April post on non-local realism with a link to the article the movies in our eyes in the April issue of Scientific American. I am finally following up on jlrevilla's suggestion. Esse
