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Out of curiosity...what background do you have to make such a wonderful highly technical comment in a casual way...I'm so interested in the field of your expert

Out of curiosity...what background do you have to make such a wonderful highly technical comment in a casual way...I'm so interested in the field of your expertise that you know so much about that this stuff, that something so technical is familiar to you, that you can come up with this brilliant analogy straight away and do it so casually. Do you work in "color technology" for a media company or something? I have no idea. I'm so interested what part of the world people who know these things do work in. Strangely, I'm struggling to write this comment in a way that doesn't sound trolling...sorry, I don't mean trolling at all. If you could see my facial expression it would be easier...

srcreigh 5y ago
I'd wager bachelor's degree+ in applied math or pure math or maybe physics.
nefitty 5y ago
I think we should normalize expressions of awe and curiosity about other people. It's hard to do without sounding ridiculous. A model that helps me is, "I like the state that that person's brain is in. I'll let them know. If I'm lucky, my communication of appreciation might shake out some generalizable knowledge that I have not encountered before." A good set of people to practice this on is doctors, teachers and Twitter users you admire.
mdwrigh2 5y ago
I'm not the parent you're asking, but figure you might be interested anyways since I could've likely made the same comment: I work on displays within an OS team. Having some basic understanding of colour theory is critical for a significant number of modern display projects, particularly for the high end. For example, enabling colour accurate rendering (games, photos, etc), shipping wide-gamut displays (how do you render existing content on a WCG display?), etc. More specifically to the planckian locus, it generally comes up when deciding which white point to calibrate a given display to at the factory (e.g. iPhone is 6470K, S20 is 7020K in Vivid)[1][2] and if you're doing any sort of chromatic white point adaptation, like Apple's True Tone[1][2]. My background before joining the team was a degree in math, but I really enjoyed doing low level projects in my spare time, so ended up on an OS team. We also have colour scientists who study this full time and have a _significantly_ better understanding of it all than I do :) [1]: https://www.displaymate.com/iPhone_13Pro_ShootOut_1M.htm#White_Point https://www.displaymate.com/iPhone_13Pro_ShootOut_1M.htm#Whi... [2]: https://www.displaymate.com/Galaxy_S20_ShootOut_1U.htm#White_Point https://www.displaymate.com/Galaxy_S20_ShootOut_1U.htm#White... [3]: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT208909 https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT208909 [4]: http://yuhaozhu.com/blog/chromatic-adaptation.html http://yuhaozhu.com/blog/chromatic-adaptation.html

srcreigh 5y ago

I'd wager bachelor's degree+ in applied math or pure math or maybe physics.

nefitty 5y ago

I think we should normalize expressions of awe and curiosity about other people. It's hard to do without sounding ridiculous. A model that helps me is, "I like the state that that person's brain is in. I'll let them know. If I'm lucky, my communication of appreciation might shake out some generalizable knowledge that I have not encountered before." A good set of people to practice this on is doctors, teachers and Twitter users you admire.

mdwrigh2 5y ago

I'm not the parent you're asking, but figure you might be interested anyways since I could've likely made the same comment: I work on displays within an OS team. Having some basic understanding of colour theory is critical for a significant number of modern display projects, particularly for the high end. For example, enabling colour accurate rendering (games, photos, etc), shipping wide-gamut displays (how do you render existing content on a WCG display?), etc. More specifically to the planckian locus, it generally comes up when deciding which white point to calibrate a given display to at the factory (e.g. iPhone is 6470K, S20 is 7020K in Vivid)[1][2] and if you're doing any sort of chromatic white point adaptation, like Apple's True Tone[1][2]. My background before joining the team was a degree in math, but I really enjoyed doing low level projects in my spare time, so ended up on an OS team. We also have colour scientists who study this full time and have a _significantly_ better understanding of it all than I do :) [1]: https://www.displaymate.com/iPhone_13Pro_ShootOut_1M.htm#White_Point https://www.displaymate.com/iPhone_13Pro_ShootOut_1M.htm#Whi... [2]: https://www.displaymate.com/Galaxy_S20_ShootOut_1U.htm#White_Point https://www.displaymate.com/Galaxy_S20_ShootOut_1U.htm#White... [3]: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT208909 https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT208909 [4]: http://yuhaozhu.com/blog/chromatic-adaptation.html http://yuhaozhu.com/blog/chromatic-adaptation.html