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Subject: Re: [AE] Inverse a LUT?
From: Brendan Bolles <brendan@fnordware.com>
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Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 22:35:31 -0800
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On Feb 2, 2012, at 7:45 PM, Brian Maffitt wrote:

> Curious if this problem will go away with digital projection? =
Eventually digital projectors should be able to represent any visible =
color, I should think.


Any visible color, as in the entire gamut of the human eye?  We're a =
long way off from that, I'm afraid.  Projectors are still making images =
by shining red, green, and blue light up there, so that's a major =
constraint.  But you'd think they'd be able show everything we can see =
on a computer monitor at least.  Maybe they can.

Ironically, part of the forthcoming IIC/ACES standard is the "Reference =
Rendering Transform", which is like a standardized film look.  And like =
other film looks, you can't get fully-saturated colors.  Similarly, I =
worked on the most recent "A Christmas Carol" which is a completely =
digital film (including projection), and yet we still created a film =
look for it.  Somebody thinks that people still like that film look.  =
But I assume with digital projection you can opt out if you want.


Brendan