<x-flowed>At 7:23 PM +0100 8/4/01, Alan Rew wrote: >On Fri, 3 Aug 2001 14:35:56 -0700, >Steve Upton <upton@chromix.com>, wrote: > ><big snip> >> I described it a while back in relation to an octopus marionette. ><snip> >> Strange, late-night ramblings I know but I hope I shed a little light >on it. > >Thanks for this clear explanation Steve: your 'ramblings' are very >welcome. Your post gives a useful insight into how profiles, and the >software that builds and utilises them, actually work. You are welcome, this stuff can be fairly opaque. > >Could you recommend a book or web reference on profile internals? The >standard ICC web site stuff is too dry and formal for me: what I'd like >to see is something along the lines of what you've written, with some >diagrams to help visualise these 3D tables and what's in them. I am afraid that there is little to go by. A lot of it came as a result of spending months inside the ICC spec. But as you have seen, there is a lot of reading between the lines that needs to be done... > >BTW I'm looking forward to ChroMix releasing the Windows version of the >ColorThink tools, so I can see inside profiles for myself and make more >sense of all this stuff... We are looking forward to it too. I am doing my best to not tease people on this. Rest assured it is being worked on... Regards, Steve +--------------------------------------------------+ Steve Upton upton@chromix.com CHROMiX / Profile Central www.chromix.com www.profilecentral.com p:206-985-6837 f:206.526.8278 9594 1st Ave NE #390 Seattle, WA 98115 Color Store...Remote Profiling...Media Management +--------------------------------------------------+ -- - Turn off HTML mail features. Keep quoted material short. Use accurate subject lines. http://www.leben.com/lists for list instructions. </x-flowed>