WangLu's Notes

平时脑子里会无缘无故，不由自主地蹦出一些旋律。这些旋律很熟悉，也肯定不是自己现编的，但是就是想不起来具体的名字，歌手或者哪里听到的。 最简单的情况是记得歌词，或者可以哼唱检索。最难的大概是影视作品的配乐，我觉得成功的配乐会让人记得当时的“感觉”而不是曲子本身的细节。 继上次 音乐寻宝 之后，又一个旋律出现了，令我吃不香睡不着。 经过几天的查找，最终还是找到了，结果是井上昌己的《Up Side Down 永遠の環》，出自圣少女的ED。过程还是挺有趣的。 1. 我大概记得开头intro的旋律，以及歌词的整体节奏，类似词牌。然而试了若干哼唱检索，都没有结果。 2. 我大概记得一些歌词片段，于是去各种网站搜索。然而结果证明我记忆的片段是错误的。 3. 我“感觉”这是一个日本动画的ED， 于是去搜索了80 90年代引进的日本动画, 以及00-08年流行的日本动画的OP ED，然而没有找到。这个比较巧妙，因为圣少女国内引进过，但是节选了OP和ED。我其实也翻了日版动画，大概看了前几集和后几集的OP ED，万没想到结果是中间的。 4. 我“感觉”动画是跟魔法少女有关，所以翻了翻魔卡少女樱和Marybell的乐集，一无所获。当时其实也过了一遍圣少女的乐集，不知为何漏掉了。 5. 后来放宽了条件，搜了一些类型相似的动画乐集，虽然没找到当前这个，但是意外找到了我的女神里的《優しい心》。这个也是以前突然蹦出来的旋律。同时翻到了同作品里的《願い》，感觉跟要找的相似，然而其实没啥相似，除了都是欢快的曲子。 6. 于是放弃了，能试的都试了，只能随缘了。 7. 后来调整了下思维，想到有没有可能是其他类属性。于是翻了一下邓丽君的日文歌集，甚至《梅兰梅兰我爱你》，当然还是无果。 8. 最后真的是随了缘，重翻了一下圣少女的乐集，竟然找到了。 这个过程里我觉得最有趣的是两点： 一是我记忆里的“感觉”，日本动画， ED， 魔法少女。这样的记忆比曲子本身深刻一些。这也让找曲子更困难了一些。 二是我记忆里的不确定因素，包括旋律歌词。我试想过多种可能的乐器组合，以及歌词韵脚，感觉都有可能。最后也证明我这部分记忆都是不准确的。

In January, as part of the preparation for digital painting training, I calibrated my laptop display and my pen display. Yet in April I realized that images look quite different on my laptop, on the pen display, on my phone or on others' devices. After hours of research, trail and error, I managed to learn more principles and calibrated my hardware and software. Here are some notes: 1. Colorimeters are not spectrometers. Instead of measuring the full (visible) spectrum, the main goal is to simulate a standard observer (with three color receptors), or XYZ values. 2. Due to #1, there are assumptions made here and there to cut down the cost without hurting the quality too much. However an important aspect is the type of monitor (e.g. WLED, WLED+phosphor, GB LED,  RGB LED, OLED etc.).  The chracteristics of each type is diffrent, mostly on the "base spectrum". The calibration may look off if the wrong correction matrix is used. Note that old colorimeters might not support new...

Continuing with the previous post , in this one I'll try to identify the goal of gamut mapping, and to create an idealized model.  The Color "Wheel" A quick word with color wheel before we can proceed. The color wheel arranges all paint (or device) colors (or more accurately, chromacity) in a hue-chroma system. The modern version is the uniform color system (UCS). I'll use CAM16UCS as an example. Here is the full visible gamut under D65, projected into CAM16UCS. "top view" of the D65 visible gamut in CAM16UCS. The color at (0, 0) is white. The colors have been mapped to sRGB. "Side view" of the D65 visible gamut in CAM16UCS. Note the chroma is 0 at the topmost and the bottom-most. The colors have been mapped to sRGB. Observe that the top view resembles the the color wheel, but it is nothing like a perfect circle. We could say this is our modern version of the color "wheel", which presents chromacity uniformly on a 2d plane. I also include...

Gamut masks, or gamut mapping, is a color managing tool made popular by James Gurney . It is a set of practical instructions, which allows us to easily create a palette of harmonic colors. James has explained the method in various formats: 2008 blog post 2011 series 1 , 2 , 3 Video  on Youtube. His book Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter I found this method so inspiring when I first learned about it around 2014. Recently it came back to my mind when I started developing the digital Zorn palette , which turned out to work quite well . I decided to revisit the cool method, in the hope of getting better understanding the method and some color therories. The goal includes: Recognizing the limitation of physical paints. Figuring out an idealized model of the method. Adapting the method for digtal painting. The Original Method I'd summarize the original gamut mapping method as the following 3 steps: Start with a color wheel. Maskthe color wheel with a simple shape, typicall...