[argyllcms] Re: it3 format
- From: Graeme Gill <graeme@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 07:19:47 +1100
Holger Kiemes wrote:
I allready read the "Description of the .ti3 format" but I have still some
questions regardig the data sets (the lines between BEGIN_DATA and END_DATA):
I am want to create only (s)RGB profiles.
1) which values are written in a dataset? is it the expected color value
in RGB and the measured value in XYZ?
I'm not quite clear on your question. The important information in a .ti3
file is each patch connection between the device value used to print
the patch (RGB), and the color value measured for it (XYZ or LAB value).
The index is not so important.
An "expected" color value is something present in .ti1 and .ti2 files,
and is used to aid the chart reading.
2) if there are more than two value pairs in a data set, are these severel
measured values to be averaged by profile or are this different formats of
the one measured value (like XYZ and L*a*b*)?
I'm guessing that you're asking what happens when there is more
than one patch with the same RGB value ?
This depends on what is processing the .ti3 file, but for
colprof, the values are effectively averaged by the regular
spline. One way of thinking about it is that two values with
the same RGB are averaged, with the result being given
twice the weight. This has subtle implications for the
level of smoothing. Increasing the weight of the data points
is the opposite of increasing the smoothing. Note
that this "averaging" is what's going on even if the
test points aren't exactly coincident.
3) Is the order of the values in the dataset importent, do i need to switch RGB,
XYZ values to XYZ, RGB according to the value of COLOR_REP?
The order of the values within each line nee is important, and needs to
correspond with the declaration in COLOR_REP.
The order between the lines is not important, and the index value will
be used if you're comparing sets, say using verify.
Graeme Gill.
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