OT: Color of Topics
OT: Color of Topics
- Subject: OT: Color of Topics
- From: Michel van Dijk <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 11:32:08 +0200
- Organization: Midox Color
To all the voices in the choir of color gospel,
For a few years I have been reading this list and was often surprised by
the insights given and issues raised. Especially the off topic ones gave
me the inspiration to drop this message on this list. The economic
climate of today drew me away from work and into politics and news. A
difference in opinion kept me from sleep. And since I have learned so
much by listening in on big color expertise, I would like to share what
I have learned of our personal opinion management.
Those who understand color and colormanagement can understand perception
and perception management. In a world of advertisement and propaganda,
this may come in handy. To illustrate my own opinion on things I wrote
two main articles and published them on www.research-epm.org. May not
all be pretty language, but there are just certain colors nobody likes;
and for good reasons. I threw in as much as I could find and am now
dropping my keys in your mailbox. Any reactions are welcome, but it is
not my intention to pull heavy subjects to this list.
I started out writing to inform people concerned with ethics in
communications, about the way perception and personal sensitivities play
a large part in the æffectiveness of a commercial or other message.
Coming across tough issues and religious aspects it soon struck me that
light and color are the most neutral phenomena to express oneself, and
that both my own and the English language had plenty of terms hidden in
plain view, already being used by the whole world. So I decided to let
fantasy do the talking to try and make up for all the sharp edges.
The disconnect that causes our miscommunications in daily life is the
result of our disregard of our own and each other's input and output
profiles. Misreading intentions. We can only assume another's intention
and interpret it in our own ways. Judgment of color is the encrypting of
multiple intentions. Color is both opinion and illusion, relative
opinion and absolute illusion. Measuring colors is our framework of
reality, mainly because of the agreed upon assumptions made by CIE and
the science community. And whether our instruments and software tell us
the color is spot on, it's always the customer's divine right to pass
final judgment.
Any circle range containing all possible colors is continuous until
bumping into a quantum limit. Dividing the circle and naming colors is
an analog to digital conversion. Learning words to name emotions is a
similar process, with thought itself the result of the first conversion.
A standard device link transforming thought to words. Different
languages, personal interpretations of common words, images, sound,
that's quite a workflow to manage! Perhaps you guys would care to unite
instruments in these dark times and show science can be as neutral and
colorful as it gets.
I hope to return my full attention on my job supporting colormanagement
users and become a good teacher of the basics of color. A small magician
in a big world full of magic. Just another Harry Potter, but with a
golden tale to tell. The dynamic difference between our white points is
the theater of public opinion. CIE-LAB is a matrix connecting science to
sense. XYZ is history, present and future. Break the red and blue
paradigm and destroy the axis of evil. Win this word game without more
violence.
Greets & good luck,
Michel van Dijk
http://www.research-epm.org/
Copyleft - All Mixtypes Intentional
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