[argyllcms] Re: ArgyllCMS V0.70 Beta 7 test now available.
- From: Graeme Gill <graeme@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:43:53 +1000
Mark wrote:
I thought that one of the beauties of ICC profiles is that each profile
characterizes one device. So for N devices we need just N profiles, all
combinations of them are "calculated" at run time (notable exception
being device link profiles). But using information in profile X to
create a LUT of device Y seems to break this rule - would I then have
to create as many display profiles as I have output devices? Maybe I
got something fundamentally wrong about CM.
It's a fine theory, and works nicely for the device characterization,
but gamut mapping isn't divisible this way, so it doesn't work for
pre-computing gamut mappings. You can only do a really good gamut
mapping if you know the source and the destination. It's something
the ICC format hasn't really tackled properly, and one of the things
that prompted the creation of WCS (Windows Color System).
Graeme Gill.
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