Category: Nerd stuff
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HDR “images” on the web
Finally, an HDR image is directly in the web browser. It is not an image, but a so-called still-frame video. Whatever works to get the screen bright 🙂 The footage of my side project during the pandemic in February of 2021 got a re-work. HDR still image …there is a good chance you see only…
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New OCIO configs available
New OCIO configs arrived in the last months. I am happy to see more and more options available to try out and test for productions. Update: Added “DAS-UBER-OCIO-Config” from Chris Brejon ACES 1.3 — OpenColorIO-Config-ACES 2.1.0 – 2.2.0 for ACES 1.3 ACES 2.0 — OpenColorIO-Config-ACES 3.0.0 for ACES 2.0 At the moment (05/2025) I am…
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Blender 4.5 & ACES 2.0
Blender 4.5 is around the corner (Blender 4.4.x has a serious bug with OCIOv2 configs on MacOS – at least for me) and the new ACES 2.0 OCIOv2 config was recently released. So it’s time for an updated little setup guide on how to start work with the new OCIO config in Blender. Head over…
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OpenColorIO-Config-ACES 2.0.0 available (09/2023)
There is a new OCIOv2 config available. Check the link for the updates. The name of the release is a bit confusing again, because the config contains: For me as a MAC user with Display P3 screens, the following feature could be important: “DisplayP3 Related Colorspaces and Display Rendering Transforms”. But I need to test the…
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Holiday links (06/2023)
During a two weeks summer break in Seville I took the time to study a bit of 3D rendering background. I found a YouTube playlist from the Technische Universität Wien about the topic: “TU Wien Rendering / Ray Tracing Course“. The course is super interesting, great that this kind of knowledge is available for free.…
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Easter links
Here are some interesting YouTube and website links: Color Inconstancy, Chromatic Adaptation, and Scales of Color Appearance A Beginner’s Guide to (CIE) Colorimetry
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What does a digital camera RAW file store?
When I use a photo develop program like Capture One, Affinity Photo or darktable I don’t really need to care. I am presented with an image, I can tweak it and hopefully get out a good looking digital photo. But when I want to know what color an object in a photo has? What do…
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Need more options? – try Blender and AgX.
Here is a little “How-To” use Blender with a different OCIO config called AgX.
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Holiday links (10/2022)
I like to store and share some links that I found interesting and useful in the last months. Here they are: A new OCIO v2 config called AgX and a video explaining some of the ideas behind it. Some interesting insights in DSLR camera native file or also called RAW files. I watched this video…
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New article: Working colourspace implications
I am happy to have finished another article that was long in the making. I even had to stop working on it and finished the article One scene – many images before. But somehow it made sense, because this article was still also in the middle of some thought processes. But here is now the…