Argyll Color Management System (ArgyllCMS)
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.
| Tags | multimedia Graphics Software Development Libraries printing |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL BSD Original |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux OS Independent Windows Windows Windows Mac OS X |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 08 Mar 2013 22:03
Release Notes: Turns off FWA debugging plots. Fixes display of whitepoint problem. Fixes a webwin crash. Fixes a gcc link order problem.
- 01 Mar 2013 22:53
Release Notes: Numerous improvements and bugfixes.
- 20 Apr 2012 13:54
Release Notes: This feature and bugfix release adds JPEG and Web support, and fixes i1d3 bugs.
- 19 Mar 2012 21:28
Release Notes: This release adds Spyder4 support. Experimental ColorHug support is compiled in, but is disabled unless the environment variable "ENABLE_COLORHUG" is set. The display selection (-y flag) has been changed and expanded to be instrument-specific to support Spyder4 and ColorHug. This release tweaks i1d3 integration times and adds accurate refresh period calibration to the refresh display mode. It changes i1disp measurement logic to try and make it more robust against light to dark changes during a reading.
- 25 Oct 2011 03:29
Release Notes: Support for X-Rite i1 Display Pro and ColorMunki Display colorimeters (i1d3), and numerous tweaks, improvements, and bugfixes.
Recent comments
Re: What about patents?
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.
What about patents?
I vaguely seem to recall that the reason for GIMP (www.gimp.org) not having any color management features (?) is because of patent issues. Does this application use any patented technology?
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