[Openicc] ColorVision Open Source Policy

[Hal V. Engel]

On Monday 12 November 2007 21:01:20 you wrote:
> Hal V. Engel wrote:
> > That is already the case.  The ArgyllCMS meter code does have preliminary
> > support for the Huey but I have not been able to get it to work on my
> > machine on either Windows or Linux.   But the code is so new that I am
> > not surprised that there are glitches at this point.  In any case once
> > these issues are
>
> Noone has reported any issues to me, but then I have no idea whether
> many have tried. USB in general seems rather more platform fragile
> than is desirable in my experience. Linux seems worse than most.

Sorry I just got the Huey and have not had time to check everything out as 
well as I would like before reporting it.  I will send you details off list.

>
> > The only feature of the vendor software that is not supported is the
> > ambient light adjustment feature and I would rather that they removed the
> > extra sensor from the device and charged less money since I think this
> > feature is a marketing ploy rather than something that is really useful.
>
> In principle this can be useful, but I suspect it is something
> that would bamboozle many users.
>
> The logical way to use this is to do a viewing conditions
> transform (ie. using something like CIECAM02) to allow
> simulation of another (say standard) lighting condition
> in the actual lighting condition.
>
> Graeme Gill.
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