Re: [Gimp-developer] [Gegl-developer] babl roadmap

[Simon Budig <simon budig de>]

Elle Stone (ellestone ninedegreesbelow com) wrote:
> On 10/17/2014 06:39 AM, Simon Budig wrote:
> > Elle Stone (ellestone ninedegreesbelow com) wrote:
> > > //begin quote from http://color.org/DevCon/devcon14.xalter
> > >
> > > While this fixed PCS is capable of delivering unambiguous color transforms,
> > > it cannot support the increasing demand for spectrally-based reproduction.
> > [...]
> > > Tying GIMP to "sRGB as PCS" is a dead-end move.
> >
> > If you take "spectrally based reproduction" as an argument against "sRGB
> > as PCS" you should be at least be so fair to also mention that *any* RGB
> > based image editing is bound to fail for this.
>
> In point of fact, I've already said thist. But I'm happy to say it again.
> RGB data is not spectral data.

I know. Which is why your previous mail could have had the very same
text and the following sentence as the conclusion:

"Tying GIMP to RGB based editing is a dead-end move."

Which is exactly the dead end you have been advocating a lot in the
recent discussion.

Bye,
        Simon

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