Colour

[jbeniston]

Recently in an award show I saw that a guy from Kingston, Ontario, Canada had won a technical "Oscar" or something like that. The guy had worked on the movie Avatar and had invented a device which solved the problem of colour difference between computor generated images and the resulting product on film.
Does anyone know what it is called? and do you think it could find an application in our industry?

 

[gordo]

Recently in an award show I saw that a guy from Kingston, Ontario, Canada had won a technical "Oscar" or something like that. The guy had worked on the movie Avatar and had invented a device which solved the problem of colour difference between computor generated images and the resulting product on film.
Does anyone know what it is called? and do you think it could find an application in our industry?

I don't know about the fellow who worked on Avatar, however, when going from computer generated images to film you remain in RGB color space, whereas in printing you are going from RGB to CMYK which is a much more complicated conversion.

best, gordon p