On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 11:33:40PM +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote: > who do i ask if they would like to change the word lightness into > brightness from the gimp gui?
without taking the time to look it up, there is a chance that these definitions pre-date computers. much of the imaging language came from photographic techniques and laboratory color measuring and algorythms that describe the differences in colors. i have a similar story. i wanted to yell at the designer of the XServer for choosing Red, Green and Blue for the display colors. my public schooling thoroughly trained me in Red Yellow and Blue. i did yell at him, actually. he kindly typed back that this RGB thing occured in 1910 or so, about the same time they were inventing sushi and thinking about having a world war now that the world knew about each other better or something. it is all fairly crazy. to me, it is a wonder that anything works. carol _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
