https://www.colour-science.org/enContents © 2026 <a href="mailto:colour-developers@colour-science.org">Colour Developers</a> Fri, 09 Jan 2026 06:25:09 GMTNikola (getnikola.com)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttps://www.colour-science.org/posts/a-plea-for-colour-analysis-tools-in-dcc-applications/Colour Developers<div><div class="cell border-box-sizing text_cell rendered"><div class="prompt input_prompt"> </div><div class="inner_cell"> <div class="text_cell_render border-box-sizing rendered_html"> <h3 id="Introduction">Introduction<a class="anchor-link" href="https://www.colour-science.org/posts/a-plea-for-colour-analysis-tools-in-dcc-applications/#Introduction">¶</a></h3> </div> </div> </div> <div class="cell border-box-sizing text_cell rendered"><div class="prompt input_prompt"> </div><div class="inner_cell"> <div class="text_cell_render border-box-sizing rendered_html"> <p>As we are increasingly using wide gamut colourspaces (<em>ACES RGB</em>, <em>Rec. 2020</em>, <em>ProPhoto RGB</em>) in the VFX industry, the need for better colour analysis tools is more important than ever. Today, nothing prevents an artist to generate or pick colours outside a given volume.</p> <p>We think that people working with DCC applications from <a href="http://www.autodesk.com/">Autodesk</a>, <a href="http://www.adobe.com/">Adobe</a> and <a href="http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/">The Foundry</a> need better tools to work with colour. This is especially true when we tend to work in scene referred lighting with floating point values.</p> <p>We are using the <em>ACES RGB</em> <em>Sony F35</em> still life image from this directory for our manipulation:</p> <p><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2uo12yepe8gg422/AAAtzFqm0eJgyf7TDHmTCXQFa/aces?dl=0">https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2uo12yepe8gg422/AAAtzFqm0eJgyf7TDHmTCXQFa/aces?dl=0</a></p> <p>More images are available there: <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/bwfrqgyt20gz4dp/XShJffwvXR">https://www.dropbox.com/sh/bwfrqgyt20gz4dp/XShJffwvXR</a></p> <p>This still life image exhibits a lot of colours that are very hard to reproduce and is a great example for the purpose of this document.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="cell border-box-sizing text_cell rendered"><div class="prompt input_prompt"> </div><div class="inner_cell"> <div class="text_cell_render border-box-sizing rendered_html"> <p><a href="https://www.colour-science.org/posts/a-plea-for-colour-analysis-tools-in-dcc-applications/">Read more…</a> (8 min remaining to read)</p></div></div></div></div>chromaticity diagramcolourcolour sciencePointer's gamutRGB colourspacespectralhttps://www.colour-science.org/posts/a-plea-for-colour-analysis-tools-in-dcc-applications/Wed, 01 Oct 2014 16:55:00 GMT