Danny, Thanks for posting your letter. Your suggestion makes good sense to me. --Rich On Nov 7, 2011, at 6:45 PM, dpascale wrote:
Richard,
Your post made me look into an old email I sent to Mr. Berns in 2007 following the article you refer to.
Since these are my words and there is no confidential or personal content, here is the letter:
------------- "Dear Mr. Berns,
I read with curiosity your comment titled “Let’s Call It Color-Gamut Rendering,”ref-1 which caught my attention because it conveyed various concepts in my mind. While I agree with the overall content of your comment, uneasiness remained with the expression. I found it was because of the word “rendering,” which triggers my neurons corresponding to “output”, especially when positioned as the last word. I understand that a camera output is rendered, but, in this case, it could be argued that the rendering is effectively done before the gamut is generated. It then became clear that the end result of the measuring instrument is a “Color-Rendering Gamut,” i.e. the gamut of the rendered color.
This simple word inversion better conveys, at least in my neurons, the underlying process. It is also structured in the same way as other acronyms, such a CRI (Color-Rendering Index), CMF (Color-Matching Function), which are structured as Noun-Verb-Noun. Furthermore, this makes for a catchy acronym, CRG, with a similarity to CRI (but likely more useful), and a word sequence that reads like a quantity, while “Color-Gamut Rendering” reads like a method. As a test, I simply swapped the two expressions in your text, and saw no obvious disagreement, except that the revised expression seemed to better fit the concept. I also made a quick Web search and found no direct hit with my revised wording, although these three words are often used close together in the same sentence; my suggestion should thus not contradict another usage.
I concur with your suggestion to formalize the descriptive words for the range of colors measured by an instrument, and with your choice of words, but I would say “Let’s Call It Color-Rendering Gamut”.
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1- COLOR research and application, Volume 32, Number 4, August 2007, p. 334"
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In essence the same concept but looked with a different eye.