Maxwell's House 56
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Episode 56 |
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| Hosts: Leo Laporte and Ray Maxwell Topic: Color Is All In Your Mind Recorded: January 21, 2010 Published: January 22, 2010 Duration: 48:32 |
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Guests
Topics
Ray's take on CES and the physiology of color...
1. Ford CEO…Apple and IBM
2. iPhone GPS clock accuracy
3. Quadtone RIP patch for Snow Leopard…14 printers…$50
4. Market studies…Xerox
5. Genetics law…employers and insurance companies cannot discriminate based on genetic information.
6. Airport Security…Canada is rescinding some of their crazy rules
7. http://www.straight.com…search “Gwynne Dyer Airport”
8. Parrot AR Drone…
- a. Accelerometer and Gyros…MEMS technology
- b. Acoustic altimeter
- c. Two streaming video cameras
- d. Vertical camera detects motion and corrects for wind…60 fps.
- e. Fly by iPhone…see the video
- f. Wifi…If out of range, it hovers
- g. Augmented Reality Games…3D tags in your enviorment
- h. Auto pilot…Auto hover
- i. Auto home on beacon
- j. Linux OS… 32 bit 468Mhz processor…USB future updates.
9. Quad Pixel TV…Yellow
10. Color Science 101.
- a. Three parts to seeing color…Illuminate, colorant, Eye and Brain
- b. Light sources…degrees K…2800K, 5000K, 9,000K
- c. Arc lamps and Fluorescent lights
- d. How instruments and digital cameras see the electromagnetic spectrum.
- e. 400nm to 700nm
- f. 32 channels 10 nm wide.
- g. www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/discipline/opt/documents/light-measurement.pdf
- h. How the human eye sees the electromagnetic spectrum.
- i. Scotopic (dark adapted), Photopic
- ii. Adapts to white point. Cameras don’t do this.
- iii. People do not see the same
- iv. 1 in 13 men is colorblind
- v. 1 in 230 women is colorblind
- i. The Lab mapping functions.
- j. Why calibrate and profile
- k. Monitors drift…
- l. Accurately communicate color…
- m. Calibration vs. profiling
- n. What is calibration?
- o. What is profiling?
- p. How does it work?
- q. What if the guy on the other end is not profiled or calibrated?
- r. Color management on Mac vs. Windows.
- s. Does including a profile make things worse for the person who’s software is not color managed.
Websites
Notable Comments
Production Information
- Edited by: Erik
- Notes: No tease.
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