[Openicc] monitor profiling

[edmund ronald]

I had an interesting experience at a demo, where a guy who was really
good showed off his ABSOLUTELY AMAZING self-written graphics software,
displaying imagery from a multi-spectral camera, recomputing
renderings on the fly for different illuminants. None of these looked
decent of course - as he said, "I'm sorry, my screen is not
calibrated". :)

Edmund

On 3/7/07, Hal V. Engel <hvengel at astound.net> wrote:
> not have good enough support for color management for this to be viable for
> most Linux/Unix/BSD (*nix) users. But today and going forward I think that
> the percent of *nix users who would purchase this type of device is going to
> start growing and will reach Windows like levels in two to three years.  That
> is in a few years the use of these devices will be nearly as common on Linux
> machines as on Windows machines.
>
> One of the interesting things about this is that the Mac, because of it
> history of use in the pre-press and graphics industries, uses these devices
> all out of proportion to the overall size of it's user base.  In fact
> GretagMacbeth started out only producing software that supported the Mac
> because at that time they didn't think there was a market for these devices
> on Windows.  I think this is the same mistake they are making with the *nix
> markets.  IE. thinking it is a 1% thing when it is likely to be a 10% thing
> when this matures in a few years.
>