Monday, February 12, 2018

Thoughts on Colorization - It's just DATA

One way to consider the issue of Colorization: "It's just data"

i.e. ultimately a picture, or film, or video is just "picture information" or data. The "raw data" is a certain volume of information encoded as a series of numbers. You can manipulate the data using certain general operation like matrix multiplication, averaging, truncating, removing noise (or error) -- or more sophisticated operations like compositing, painting, editing, color correcting, encoding, etc.

But no matter how you change or manipulate the image -- it is still just DATA.  It is just numbers scanned into a data file on some computer.  It is just numbers.   Nothing is being changed except numbers.   Nothing is being changed except a copy of a copy.   Nothing is being changed except you -- your impression, your image, and your memory.   But really, it's still just data.  DATA.  Numbers.

"It's just data." - Mr. Atwater


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William Schaeffer

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