On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Andrew Brouse wrote:
To further complicate things, our response to brightness and colour is not
linear and so those perceptual curves have to be taken into account during
that mapping into video signals (chroma and luma).
Oh and also all those "absolutely perceptual" systems are just discarding
the genetic diversity of the universe (as well as the non-genetic
diversity!). One man's metamers is another one's yuck. ;)
Most video digitisation systems also use 'chroma sub-sampling'
Yes, we know about it, but I don't think that it's so relevant to colours
unless using the YUV image type in GEM or PDP. (In GridFlow, YUV images
are not subsampled, and also, Claude is so far only talking about
individual colours, as float triplets)
This uses that fact that we are more sensitive to differences in
brightness than variations in colour.
But this is not counting the fact that we could be standing close enough
to the screen to actually see that much chroma resolution. No explanation
of subsampling ever talks about that.
The YCbCr (corresponds the YUV colour space of our perception) video
representation uses this technique which makes it more compact while
giving approximately equal quality to an larger RGB representation.
In order to say that, you have to define quality to correspond to some
idea of how one should look at a screen in order to justify the
subsampling. But people don't watch a screen from the same distance.
Anyone working with colour video systems should know and read Charles
Poynton's writing on this subject - he is the acknowledged expert. If
you only have one book on your shelf it should be his "Digital Video and
HDTV".
Hey. Colours are nice, but art in general is a lot more important. If I'd
have only one book on my shelf it should be something else than a treatise
of colorimetry.
[you can also be amazed, amused or angered by the way he vacillates
between 'color' and 'colour' in his writing...]
None of the above...
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