The Hitchhiker's Guide to Digital Colour

Back at Question #6 we discussed the idea of an “encoding transfer characteristic”.

The parallel funny walk stepping into what some folks might consider an “esoteric” accumulation of concepts around pictorial depictions is now interrupted by a brief return to our standard programming; the nuts and bolts of this ridiculous romp along phys…

Onward to Colour With the previous Question #34, we began a discussion of “Seeing X in Y”.

Dear reader… your burdened author has several posts sitting in the drafts box.

With the past several posts, the astute mind will have already arrived at the answer to the headline question here, so in an effort to add some value to the short answer of “There is no colour in the discrete scalar samples of stimuli”, let’s try to explo…

As we look back to the past two questions, it is hopefully more evident that no simple path as forwarded by “stimulus-as-colour” can aid in charting us successfully through the perils of the colour iceberg laden waters.

There’s a lurking question sitting atop the pile of these posts, which hopefully has been emerging up and out of the swamp.

Hello.

I often receive quite a few questions asking me about my particular spin on colourimetry, pictures, and vision, from folks who have completely erroneously decided that I have even the remotest handle on any of this nonsense.

Following on from Question #28’s Rashomon inspired retelling, we are going to look again at what Question #2 brought to the table, and pick it apart.