Re: [Gimp-developer] [Gimp-user] Time to fork BABL and GEGL

[Elle Stone <ellestone ninedegreesbelow com>]

On 11/20/2014 05:13 AM, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Elle Stone
> <ellestone ninedegreesbelow com> wrote:
> > On 11/19/2014 10:47 PM, Simon Budig wrote:
> > > Since a few questions have popped up on IRC and it really is a weird
> > > concept to grasp I thought I'd expand a bit on the color math that is
> > > being discussed here. Sorry it is so long, I hope it is somewhat
> > > entertaining though  :)
> >
> >
> > Most of what you said is exactly right.
> >
> > > To reiterate: Every XYZ coordinate can be represented in the terms of
> > > sRGB primaries.
> >
> >
> > Above is exactly true. You can DISPLAY and STORE all colors using the sRGB
> > chromaticities.
> >
> > What you can't do is EDIT using sRGB as a universal RGB working space.
> >
> > I'm not going to rehearse all the problems that are caused by trying to
> > force EDITING to be done using the sRGB chromaticities.
> >
> > You can DISPLAY and STORE all colors using sRGB chromaticities. But EDITING
> > is a different matter.
> >
> > Yes, all of the above is true. I've said the same myself. In fact I've
> > written articles on the topic.
> >
> > Again, EDITING is different from STORING and DISPLAYING.
>
> Then why have you argued against everyone trying to explain this to you?

Umm, what are you talking about?

I'm not being sarcastic. I don't understand what you are trying to say.

Do you think I am arguing in favor of unbounded sRGB image editing?

What is it that you think I am missing?

Elle