About:
Argyll is an ICC compatible color management system. It supports accurate ICC profile creation for scanners, CMYK printers, and film recorders, and calibration and profiling of displays. Spectral sample data is supported, allowing a selection of illuminants observer types, and paper fluorescent whitener additive compensation. Profiles can also incorporate source specific gamut mappings for perceptual and saturation intents. Gamut mapping and profile linking uses the CIECAM02 appearance model, a unique gamut mapping algorithm, and a wide selection of rendering intents. It also includes code for a fast 8-bit raster color conversion engine as well as support for fast, fully accurate 16-bit conversion. Device color gamuts can also be viewed and compared using a VRML viewer.

Author:
Graeme Gill [contact developer]

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Homepage:
http://www.argyllcms.com/index.html
Zip:
http://www.argyllcms.com/Argyll_V1.0.0_src.zip
Mailing list archive:
http://www.freelists.org/archives/argyllcms/

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		6 - Mature
[Environment]		Console (Text Based), MacOS X, Win32 (MS Windows), X11 Applications
[License]		OSI Approved :: BSD License (original), OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL), OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License v3
[Operating System]		MacOS X, Microsoft :: Windows :: Windows NT/2000/XP, OS Independent, POSIX :: Linux
[Programming Language]		C
[Topic]		Multimedia :: Graphics, Printing, Software Development :: Libraries

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	1.0.0	01-Jul-2008	GNU General Public License v3

 Comments

[»] What about patents?
by Walles - May 4th 2002 11:10:50

I vaguely seem to recall that the reason for GIMP not having any color management features (?) is because of patent issues. Does this application use any patented technology?

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[»] Re: What about patents?
by Graeme Gill - Dec 9th 2002 07:43:48

Argyll is primarily a research project. I haven't knowingly used patent technology, but then I haven't gone and researched software patents in foreign countries like the USA. One of the "bogy man" patents has expired (the schriber patent). As long as patent offices keep OK'ing obvious ideas and developments, progress will suffer, and there will be problems. By making Argyll public I am guaranteeing that this technology will be free of patents at some time in the future.

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