Joann Malone Taylor

Color in Computer Graphics: Manipulating and Matching Color

Color in graphic workstations has rapidly transitioned from a novelty with great expected potential to a highly useful tool for the communication of complex databases to a human brain. Perhaps the most dominant feature of this transition has been the recognition that color provides a significant mechanism for the communication of such large and complex sources of information. This realization builds a critical cornerstone of the emerging discipline of interactive visualization. Although disagreement exists within the graphics industry as to the exact definition of visualization, most experts agree that the concept connotes the ability to render complex databases by visual means in order to capitalize on the sensory processing capability of the visually-oriented human mind.

Integrated color management: the key to color control in electronic imaging and graphic systems

The continuing evolution of color in both established and new electronic imaging and graphics markets plus the parallel growth of user expectation resulting in the demand for WYSIWYG color across devices points directly to the need for a unified color management approach that addresses the complex and multi-level requirements of system implementors, application and hardware vendors, as well as users. Such a system should provide extensible, device- and computing platform-independent access to state of the art color functionality. The principal elements of such an integrated system are discussed.