[argyllcms] Re: OT: random thought on display gamut
- From: Ben Goren <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 14:26:47 -0700
On 2009 Dec 30, at 7:57 PM, Graeme Gill wrote:
> Ben Goren wrote:
>
>> It just occurred to me that it might be practical to create a display with a
>> gamut that
>> encompasses the entirety of human vision by using not three but five
>> primaries.
>
> This has been done. If you look though the past proceedings of the CIC
> you will come across articles detailing such displays.
Thanks for the tip. I'll look it up.
> There is a way of expanding the gamut of a conventional display
> without such technology, simply by manipulating the white point.
> This could be done using ICC profiles, although the operating
> systems GUI's (because they generally aren't color managed)
> will tend to sabotage this approach.
Two thoughts immediately leap to mind.
First, OS X is mostly color managed.
Second...is there any way to do this with Argyll? I have a couple ancient
laptops laying around that I keep meaning to turn into digital picture frames.
Would it be possible to use Argyll for the transformation and display the
un-modified un-tagged image on some generic free Unix-like OS?
Cheers,
b&
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