gnome-color-manager and profiles

GNOME Color Manager has shown 2D CIE 1931 plots for a couple of years now, but as all color savvy people know, a gamut is a 3D object, and a 2D slice can be horribly inaccurate and misleading sometimes.

To fix this, I worked for a couple of hours at the weekend to produce a 3D gamut graph using clutter:

It’s then a simple case of clicking and dragging on the hull to rotate it. Long term, there will be a way to compare the different device gamuts, but I’ve not worked out a good way to show this in the UI.

To accomplish the new plot I’ve reused a lot of the math from icc_gamin, and a lot of the setup code from the viewer example program for mash, and also used a lot of the cleverness in clutter-gtk.

To play with the new toy, you’ll need to install clutter-gtk and mash, and be building gnome-color-manager from git master.

Published by

hughsie

Richard has over 10 years of experience developing open source software. He is the maintainer of GNOME Software, PackageKit, GNOME Packagekit, GNOME Power Manager, GNOME Color Manager, colord, and UPower and also contributes to many other projects and opensource standards. Richard has three main areas of interest on the free desktop, color management, package management, and power management. Richard graduated a few years ago from the University of Surrey with a Masters in Electronics Engineering. He now works for Red Hat in the desktop group, and also manages a company selling open source calibration equipment. Richard's outside interests include taking photos and eating good food.

6 thoughts on “gnome-color-manager and profiles”

  1. Just want to say thank you very much. I benefit from your previous efforts on a daily basis, and color management is also a very welcome addition to the Gnome desktop. BTW, I like the edge treatment of the tabs left and right of the active tab. Is this new for Gnome 3?

  2. nice toy, but I doubt it is really that useful. The thing about the CIE plots is that they are brightness-normalized, so you really not lose anything important IMO.
    And comparing 2D objects is always easier than 3D objects. ;)

    Something I would really appreciate is drawing the gamut triangle in the LAB CIE plot. I dont know wheter gcm already does this, as it is not default in ubuntu yet, so maybe you could also promote it there..

Comments are closed.