[Openicc] review of new wide gamut editing space

[Chris Murphy]

On Mar 21, 2012, at 10:56 PM, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:

> Am 21.03.12, 13:45 -0600 schrieb Chris Murphy:
>> On Mar 21, 2012, at 1:34 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>>> 
>>> Yes it's a nice display. But the areas of gamut extended beyond Adobe RGB are naturally occurring? Are they even commonly unnaturally (synthetically) occurring?
>> 
>> 
>> Rephrase, hopefully for better clarity:
>> 
>> Are the areas of the HP Dreamcolor gamut that extend beyond the Adobe RGB gamut, naturally occurring colors or synthetically occurring colors?
> 
> As the monitor can display these colours and these colours are measured by a spectrometer, they must be real colours. I am not going to speculate, that I judge about content of others in saying:
> "people will never use a certain colour, so we can drop it".
> 
> Btw. flowers are so often out of gamut.

If you're going to take the position nothing can be dropped, welcome to the 32+bpc float support group. Otherwise, we're always in the position of dropping something, hopefully something reasonable that most people won't notice most of the time. Because it takes a whole lot of effort and cost to keep all of it.


Chris Murphy