Category: Theory

synthesis over analysis

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Harris Shutter.

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Color vision is based upon the responses of three classes of cones in the retina, each of which has broadband sensitivity but maximum sensitivity at different wavelengths. A consequence of this is that color reproduction is trichromatic – the use of three primaries allows a wide range of colors to be reproduced. Color-mixing behavior can be broadly classified as either additive or subtractive. The optimum primaries of the subtractive color system are cyan, magenta, and yellow. The use of cyan, magenta, and yellow subtractive primaries allows a surprisingly large – albeit limited – gamut of colors to be reproduced. In practical printing systems, black is also used so that CMYK is ubiquitous in printing. Extended gamuts can be achieved using more than three or four primaries and systems based on six or more primaries are becoming quite common. https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-3-319-14346-0_13

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collected from the daily dilly. some haven’t had time to pickle, others to gel.

AI means Automatic Inflation.. and that AIn’t smart

me..webionaire

In his 2019 book Alchemy, Sutherland coined the term “doorman fallacy”. The doorman fallacy refers to the error of reducing a person’s job to its most basic function and replacing it with a cost-effective automation while disregarding the broader, not directly visible, value they provide.

two valleys: one was The Weirton steelland.. sounded like Rearden to the russkey [her preferred place ] to: chugboat –the additions to Dektol aren’t intended to convert it into Ansco-130, rather, they are meant as ‘tunings’ toward printing characteristics.. tone separation [Hi, Sh] as well as curve with extended developer time; all while maintaining tray life. This worked in the days of Dupont Velour, Agfa Brovira, Portriga … baking is adapting to the nature. Dance with floor as well as the music.

Ayn and Rearden… speak-spell got it wrong: thinking the phrase was: “your own steel” since, of course phrase counts upon the internet uses OWN with increasing frequency. Ayn, for childhood reading all through adulthood. Comfort to those midland successes dreaming of salvation by the Knight Watchman

ai is ‘own grazed’ with voice [ Your own steel ] from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISG_Weirton_Steel

the file of OWN– a word that has become stuck to my shoe.

PICTURES by other means

Introducing Un-0: Generating Images with Coupled Oscillators
” Why oscillators? In the brain, rhythmic activity and synchronization are pervasive, and have long been hypothesized to do computational work like binding distributed features into coherent percepts, gating communication between regions, and organizing the timing of spikes (Gray et al., 1989; Buzsáki, 2006; Fries, 2015). Coupled oscillators are among the simplest mathematical models of that kind of behavior, which makes them a natural primitive to study for neuro-inspired models of computation (Winfree, 1967; Kuramoto, 1975; Ermentrout, 1996; Ermentrout et al., 2010). [https://unconv.ai/blog/introducing-un-0-generating-images-with-coupled-oscillators/ ]

From Sandhill Valley. JUNE 24, 2026 Om Malik, 1966-2026
Om Malik passed away on June 24, 2026, at Stanford Hospital after a long health journey with his heart. He was surrounded by family and friends.

Knowing is Knowing is Knowing

Hagsouth Waffles —

US5~ here, who walked thru two lines of medics providing us “medical autonomy,” giving free shots… but then, 1965 was a time we didn’t have catering cards… we had signs outside mess halls at Ft. Bragg ” edible garbage” .. so it went, in the time before Contract Killers took-over.

sometime I’ll tell about powdered milk and powdered eggs… with water from rainstorms.. cooking over flares… only if the night was foggy.. sadly, not a tattoo parlor in site, certainly not onsite.

“Since the pandemic, affordability has become a key issue in U.S. politics, and energy prices are the current face of affordability,” Cassino told Newsweek. “In our polling, voters support anything to bring down their energy bills, but banning data centers is pretty much the most popular option.”

menus from last century.. the early restaurant https://pudding.cool/2026/06/menu-story/

Structured- circles

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What you know, more tines than you know, is limited by the circles you keep. So, when something unknown enters the den of static amateurs, see: snobby-hobby] does it rouse… if so, what? Or, is the response a shrugish ‘so what’ The science that color emulsion response measurement changes… at the least, too late in my lab career, it explained the failure points of ‘neutral’ separation systems across emulsion brands… Seems big to me..

The stuff that fills in the lines…



“His account of the development of science held that science enjoys periods of stable growth punctuated by revisionary revolutions. To this thesis, Kuhn added the controversial ‘incommensurability thesis’, that theories from differing periods suffer from certain deep kinds of failure of comparability.” plato.stanford.edu/entries/thomas-kuhn/

— https://www.columbia.edu/cu/tract/projects/complexity-theory/kuhn-the-structure-of-scien.pdf

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“The operations and measurements that a scientist undertakes in the laboratory are not “the given” of experience but rather “the collected with difficulty”. They are not what the scientist sees—at least not before his research is well advanced and his attention focused. Rather, they are concrete indices to the content of more elementary perceptions, and as such they are selected for the close scrutiny of normal research only because they promise opportunity for the fruitful elaboration of an accepted paradigm. Far more clearly than the immediate experience from which they in part derive, operations and measurements are paradigm-determined. Science does not deal in all possible laboratory manipulations. Instead, it selects those relevant to the juxtaposition of a paradigm with the immediate experience that that paradigm has partially determined. As a result, scientists with different paradigms engage in different concrete laboratory manipulations.”

—Kuhn (1962, p. 216)

possibly a change from subjective to objective definitions of color response .. this is foundational enough that all fields that relied on prior definitions can update their processes of analysis and synthesis of color .

>> Finding a new paradigm 

One day, Roxana was researching mathematical models of color perception, when a paper put her on a discovery path that lasted several years, marked by periods of excitement and fear, she says.

  1. I read a 1963 David MacAdam paper and noticed that the phenomenon that he observed (diminishing returns) was in conflict with the Riemannian model. Since that paper was 50 years old, I assumed everyone knew that.
  2. For about a year, I searched for a paper or book that would state the fact explicitly and could not find one. I started to wonder if nobody had noticed the contradiction but thought it was absurd and I was just being too full of myself.
  3. Then one day on my search, I came across the 1979 MacAdam paper (where he writes that there is no reason to question the Riemannian model) and thought: Well, if not even the guy who discovered diminishing returns sees the contradiction, maybe it is indeed true that nobody has…
  4. So, we decided to write the paper. But I totally expected that one of the reviewers or one of the readers would point out the place where the contradiction had been stated, and that we had just not been able to find it. But, well, so far so good…

>> Roxana now believes perceived hue is a “pure and logical phenomenon” without learned classification, cultural bias or personal preference. ….

Roxana’s team found that Schrödinger had stopped short before completing his mission because he used the “neutral axis” as a reference point without defining it. The neutral axis is the central, achromatic line of grays connecting black to white in 3D color space, serving as the foundation for measuring color saturation and hue.

“The 2022 discovery allowed us to define hue, saturation and lightness purely geometrically for the first time,” she says. “That was Schrödinger’s big goal, but it was not possible in a Riemannian space.” RCS..

THE OLD. PRIOR FOUNDATIONS USED TO BUILD

D. B. Judd, Contributions to Color Science (Department of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards, 1979), vol. 545.
D. L. MacAdam, Judd’s contributions to color metrics and evaluation of color differences. Color Res. Appl. 4, 177–193 (1979).

NOTE: MacAdam was a key researcher on color charts, illiminants, etc.

— https://doi.org/10.1002/col.5080060110

i’m always surprised, but frequently find that the failures in a hobby space lack curiosity about the subject; and I suspect that they also failed in their work space for the same reason .. they thought they knew more than they did and they were not curious enough to doubt them self .. [hence my calling them vBulls, or snobby-hobbiests