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Open Display Transform Wiki

On this wiki you will find a collection of tool documentation and nerdy ramblings about display transforms and tertiary subjects. I think explaining is important. I'll do my best to simplify and distill things down as much as possible, but I will assume some foundational knowledge of digital color topics.

Display Transforms

• An Introduction
  High-level introduction to what this project is all about.
• OpenDRT Quick-Start
  How to install OpenDRT in Nuke and Resolve, and some description of the parameters.

Look Transforms

• stay tuned...

Technical

• Image States
  How an image gets from a scene to your display.
• Gamut Volume
  Dimensionality of a gamut volume.
• RGB Tonemap
  All about per-channel display transforms. How they work and what effects they have on the look and behavior of images.
• Tonescale
  How to compress scene-referred intensity down into the more limited display-referred output range. Using a norm to preserve color.
• High Dynamic Range (in progress)
  What is HDR and how does the render transform change for these types of displays?
• Chroma Compression (in progress)
  Compressing chroma in order to preserve tonality and get the most out of our limited display device.
• Whitepoint (in progress)
  Technical whitepoint vs. creative whitepoint. filmlight link, chromaticity of peak, could be anything

Support Materials

• Footage
  A collection of sources for scene-linear source footage.

Educational Resources

• Cinematic Color - From your Monitor to the Big Screen