[argyllcms] Re: inter-instrument matching tables

  • From: Gerhard Fürnkranz <nospam456@xxxxxx>
  • To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:54:06 +0100

Btw, 15 (+ one for the unprinted paper) is also the number of neugebauer 
primaries to be expected for a cmyk print.

-Gerhard



Gerhard Fuernkranz <nospam456@xxxxxx> schrieb:

>Am 16.11.2011 15:07, schrieb Alexey Gribunin:
>> By the way, as I understand, number of principal components should be equal 
>> or less than 36, i.e. maximum spectral bands. Is this correct?
>
>Yes.
>
>> Why did you use 15?
>
>I have selected this value empirically for my data set. The reflectance 
>spectra of all the 1786 patches in my data set (which was btw. from an inkjet 
>print, measured with Spectrolino) can be represented as linear combinations of 
>15 basis vectors with an error of less than 0.01 dE average, and 0.1 dE max, 
>which is good enough and certainly below the repeatability of the 
>measurements. Thus more than 15 PCs would just fit more of the noise in the 
>measurements, and not really improving anything (likely I should have used 
>even less than 15 for this data set).

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Best Regards
Gerhard

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