RE: 1 billion colors
RE: 1 billion colors
- Subject: RE: 1 billion colors
- From: Roger Breton via colorsync-users <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 09:06:44 -0500
Wire,
I'm not really after one "best" visualization. MacAdam ellipses are daunting to
me, I won't go there unless I have to. I realize no color space will ever have
perfect qualities but that's not what I'm after... My point, in raising the
question with Steve yesterday, was what kind of numerical abstraction can be
applied to distinguish between "unique" colors -- sorry to sound like a broken
record in the context of color management? I confess, initially, I had this
16.7 million RGB "color combinations" question in mind. But, like many here, I
am aware of research that concluded that men and women with "normal color
vision" can only discriminate 10 million different colors (or something like
that?) which is referred as the "Gamut of real colors", I think, see Dr Michael
Pointer -- a nice guy, btw 😉 I never read the papers about this concept (I have
no idea how that number was ever arrived at or very vaguely) but I took it "on
faith" that this estimate made intuitive sense to me.
There are only 24 hours in a day.
/ Roger
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On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 14:21 Steve Upton via colorsync-users <
email@hidden> wrote:
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> > On Jan 7, 2020, at 1:36 PM, Roger Breton via colorsync-users <
> email@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > So, Steve, anything that is outside of that "1 Lab" unique cube is
> considered a "different color", in ColorThink? Is that your criteria?
>
> effectively, yes.
>
> Though if you "do the math", it becomes clear that 1 Lab cubes don't
> pack properly so that the centers of each cube are 1 dE apart from all
> the other centers, *and* that you can't really do that because
> sphere's don't pack efficiently, etc, etc, etc
>
> Steve
>
Roger, it seems you are thinking about something like packing of MacAdam
ellipses...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacAdam_ellipse
The MacAdams ellipse describes relative capacity to distinguish color across
regions of the locus.
Normal individual observers — normal meaning those who you would not define as
color-blind — will have varying abilities to discriminate depending on the
color.
(Is it fair to use the term color in this way? If color is a pure qualia can
you have color blindness? How can one be blind to that which for him does not
exist? ;)
The idea is you pick a coordinate and ask how well an individual, as compared
to the population, is able to discriminate difference surrounding this
coordinate? And how sensitive is the population to differences across the gamut
(word police: "we have you surrounded").
The MacAdam idea leads to a heap or camel or Zeno's paradox: Pick a point and
draw a MacAdam ellipse. Within the ellipse, color is considered
indistinguishable. Between the neighboring ellipses, color is distinguishable.
Pick a point half-way between neighboring ellipses and draw another MacAdam
ellipse. Where did the color go?!
This may leads me to consider I want an encoding system with a resolution much
finer than one standard color difference. Say if I had a system of millions of
"colors" nee qualia (oh, wait, strike that, reverse it... Er no wait...
waaaahhhg!) and I want a stimulus system that driven by a numerical
non-uniformly perceptually distributed integer RGB values to avoid visible
quantization artifacts, I may find I want the data format to encode a couple
orders of magnitude more stimulus than qualia to ensure I cover the corner
cases.
Therefore "billions of colors."
QED
Seeing this MacAdam idea really affected my visualization of the distortions
inherent to the XY plot. And cemented my view that Adobe RGB was singled-minded
in desire to cover press, with newer DCI being a much more balanced extension
of sRGB.
As somewhat related aside, DisplayCal has gamut projections in a mode called
DIN99, which looks to me like it might be intended to be a very perceptually
weighted plot. There's not much about it returned by web search... I admit I
haven't asked at the obvious place, over at the DCal forum.
I'll post the Dell gamut vs standard gamuts as DIN99 so others can see.
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