Re: appearance matching

On 07/06/2013 08:28 PM, Dale wrote:
> the ICC www.color.org currently uses CIE instrumental color matching
> unless you opt to use the perceptual reference medium gamut in which
> there is some attempt at appearance matching for certain applications
>
> I could be wrong, it has been almost 20 years since I have been in the
> business
>
> anyways
>
> the only two workflows/use-cases I can think where you would want
> instrumental color matching are:
> 1) instrumental applications
> 2) input appearance same as output appearance
>
> why not use CIECAM and allow for workflows/use-cases in which the input
> and output have different appearance criteria?
>
> you could allow the user to select the appearances and from there be
> given appearance matching profiles to choose from
>
> I know there is such a thing as "good enough" matching and perfect
> matching and that sometimes "good enough" matching is "good enough" for
> quality/price/time considerations
>

there is also the issue that CIE only has 2 and 10 degree observers, right?

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Dale