[argyllcms] Re: Using Agyllcms + Colormunki to match house paint?
- From: Ben Goren <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 08:50:39 -0700
On Mar 14, 2016, at 5:47 PM, Graeme Gill <graeme@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The other technical alternative would be if their paint matching system
had an ability to read a standard spectral sample format, say CGATS
or CxF format.
I very much doubt the local store would even have the slightest clue what this
meant, but the corporate office would have the ability (though perhaps not the
interest) to put you in touch with an engineer for whom such would be child's
play.
However, I wouldn't waste their time for a simple match of a color sampled from
a consumer spectrometer. The spectrometers in the paint stores are certainly no
worse and possibly significantly better, especially if they're properly
maintained. Where I'd go to the corporate engineers would be for something
special, such as formulations for a series of spectrally flat neutral grays, or
maybe the spikiest (most saturated) samples evenly distributed through the
spectrum, or that sort of thing. Think of designing your own input chart...that
would be appropriate and likely get somebody excited to help.
...the problem being, of course, that charts are of limited value in camera
profiling once you know of better alternatives...and the bigger problem being
designing something superior to a ColorChecker Passport (let alone something
you can manufacture yourself in small quantities for less money).
Cheers,
b&
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