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Question #36: What the F*ck is that 0.5, Again?

The parallel funny walk stepping into what some folks might consider an “esoteric” accumulation of concepts around pictorial depictions is now interrupted by a brief return to our standard programming; the nuts and bolts of this ridiculous romp along physical grounds. As we iterate back over our history, we can flesh out more specifically what […]

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Question #35: What the F*ck is Photography’s Founding Myth (And Why the F*ck Should We Care)? Episode Two

Onward to Colour With the previous Question #34, we began a discussion of “Seeing X in Y”. Given that we have at least a fundamental grasp of the idea that a pictorial depiction is not an “innate” experience, but rather a cognitively mediated construct, what can be said about the construct of “colour” specifically? Let’s […]

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Question #34: What the F*ck is Photography’s Founding Myth (And Why the F*ck Should We Care)? Episode One

Dear reader… your burdened author has several posts sitting in the drafts box. The author has wanted to tackle some of the more interesting things around photographic “exposure”, or more specifically pictorial “exposure” for a good deal of time. Sadly, because the author’s maligned and misinformed worldview is so utterly deformed and distorted away from […]

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Question #33: What the F*ck are the Colours of the Three Lights?

With the past several posts, the astute mind will have already arrived at the answer to the headline question here, so in an effort to add some value to the short answer of “There is no colour in the discrete scalar samples of stimuli”, let’s try to explore the surface of the problem with a […]

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Question #32: Does the F*cking “Colour” of the Light Change When We Increase or Decrease the Quantity of Light?

As we look back to the past two questions, it is hopefully more evident that no simple path as forwarded by “stimulus-as-colour” can aid in charting us successfully through the perils of the colour iceberg laden waters. The worst part is that the USS Colourimetry vessel is chocker full of flesh eating obsessed Colourimetric Stimulus […]

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Question #31: What the F*ck is Colour?

There’s a lurking question sitting atop the pile of these posts, which hopefully has been emerging up and out of the swamp. The shambling shibboleth ultimately is one that we are going to need to tackle in order to revisit some of the previously answered questions in a much more valid manner. I know that […]

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Question #30: What is the F*cking “Colour” of Light?

Hello. I just wanted to let you know that the dimwitted author set their password to “password”. This left a glaring security hole in their website. I’ve just read over all of this nonsense, and I’d like to tell you all that you’ve wasted your time. The author is a complete idiot. See, they’ve led […]

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Questions to the Editor #1: What the F*ck is a Picture?

I often receive quite a few questions asking me about my particular spin on colourimetry, pictures, and vision, from folks who have completely erroneously decided that I have even the remotest handle on any of this nonsense. More often than not, the value of these questions result in my learning more through these sorts of […]

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Question #29: What the F*ck is Intensity, Again?

Following on from Question #28’s Rashomon inspired retelling, we are going to look again at what Question #2 brought to the table, and pick it apart. Question #2 asked: Question #2: What does 0.6 represent in a typical DCC context? – Idiot Author The answer to Question #2: Answer #2: In an RGB DCC application, 0.6 is a ratio […]

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Question #28: What the F*ck is the Difference Between Affect and Effect? (And What the F*ck is Rashomon?)

Rashomon was a film that offered a unique multiple recounting of a horrible incident. Why am I bringing it up here? It seems fitting. In order for us to fully appreciate the depths to which we have plunged, it is critically important for us to pay close attention to the two most recent posts. In […]