Re: [Gimp-developer] [Gimp-user] Time to fork BABL and GEGL

[Mikael Magnusson <mikachu gmail com>]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Elle Stone
<ellestone ninedegreesbelow com> wrote:
> On 11/19/2014 10:47 PM, Simon Budig wrote:
> > Since a few questions have popped up on IRC and it really is a weird
> > concept to grasp I thought I'd expand a bit on the color math that is
> > being discussed here. Sorry it is so long, I hope it is somewhat
> > entertaining though  :)
>
>
> Most of what you said is exactly right.
>
> > To reiterate: Every XYZ coordinate can be represented in the terms of
> > sRGB primaries.
>
>
> Above is exactly true. You can DISPLAY and STORE all colors using the sRGB
> chromaticities.
>
> What you can't do is EDIT using sRGB as a universal RGB working space.
>
> I'm not going to rehearse all the problems that are caused by trying to
> force EDITING to be done using the sRGB chromaticities.
>
> You can DISPLAY and STORE all colors using sRGB chromaticities. But EDITING
> is a different matter.
>
> Yes, all of the above is true. I've said the same myself. In fact I've
> written articles on the topic.
>
> Again, EDITING is different from STORING and DISPLAYING.

Then why have you argued against everyone trying to explain this to you?

-- 
Mikael Magnusson