Hi,

although you and Elle are discussing this topic, I'd like to give my 2 cents

> Am 06.10.2014 um 21:54 schrieb Øyvind Kolås <[email protected]>:
> To facilitate
> cooperation between scientists, engineers and others we have developed
> a convention of tagging numbers we use to refer to temperature with a
> unit qualifier, like thus: 37.7°C 100°F 310.9°K. That way, given a set
> of conversions formulas, it is possible to operate in the preferred
> unit.

Of course, you can do operations in your preferred unit, but that does not 
mean, that your computation will give identical results after you convert your 
result of your preferred unit back to the original unit. And that's what you 
implicitly say: operating in a "converted unit" and converting back will give 
identical results, as if operating in any original unit only. Or in GEGL/BABL 
words: operating in unbounded sRGB and converting back to the original space 
will give identical results as operating in the original space only. 

You've given a very good example for that:

If
x C = y F
and
x C = z T, where T is your "TCS" , your "temperature connection space"
is true,

you know that

2*x C != 2*y F 
and
x C + 10 C != y F + 10 C
and
x C + 10 C != y F + 10 F

is true too.

and so although
2*x C = 2*z T
there is
2*z T != 2*y F
and
z T + 10 T != y F + 10 F

So doing an operation in T, either multiply or adding, and converting back, 
won't be the same as computing in the original unit in your example. Same 
applies to color space computations and various operations. 

BTW, I've noticed, that although Elle always gives equations or real world 
examples and images to prove her statements, you don't. So, I'd like to ask you 
for such a mathematical equation or real world example for your statements.

Finally and sorry to say so, AFAICS, Elle is right.

Kind regards
Simone Karin

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