Hi,

Thanks for reporting, I am bringing this issue to the ICC.

Regards
Marti

Quoting Esben Høgh-Rasmussen Myosotis <e...@phaseone.com>:

> Hello there.
>
> I am looking into the pit known as chromatic adaptation and noticed  
> something strange.
>
> In the ICC specification, Bradford adaptation is based on the  
> following XYZ/cone-space conversion matrix:
>
>       [  0.8951,  0.2664, -0.1614 ]
>       [ -0.7502,  1.7135,  0.0367 ]
>       [  0.0389, -0.0685,  1.0296 ]
>
> This is also what LCMS use.
>
> This method is, presumably, taken from K.M.Lam's thesis "Metamerism  
> and Colour Constancy" (what he calls KING1 method I think). However,  
> when I look in the thesis, it specifies the following matrix:
>
>       [  0.8951,  0.2664, -0.1614 ]
>       [ -0.7502,  1.7135,  0.0367 ]
>       [  0.0389,  0.0685,  1.0296 ]
>
> The numbers are the same, but the sign in A(3,2) is positive instead  
> of negative. The matrix is written in the same way 3 times in the  
> thesis (unless the OCR missed something; I did not actually go  
> through all 426 pages).
>
> Any ideas why there is this discrepancy? Are we using a buggy method  
> for adaptation due to a typo?
>
>
> Esben H-R Myosotis
> Software Engineer
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> _______________________________________________
> Lcms-user mailing list
> Lcms-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lcms-user



------------------------------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________
Lcms-user mailing list
Lcms-user@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lcms-user

Reply via email to