Where to go with the color reproduction series?

This is the fourteenth in a series of posts on color reproduction. The series starts here.

When I started this series of posts, I wanted to educate you all about the nature of the color reproduction problem, what some of the common — and not-so-common — techniques for dealing with non-Luther cameras are, what pitfalls are likely to be encountered, and how to do color accuracy testing for yourself. In this last objective, I limited myself to tools that you could find on the web, like Bruce Lindbloom’s Macbeth color checker spreadsheet.

That’s fine for a few spot checks, but some of the issues, like the effect of varying the illuminant, needs a fair amount of samples. Transferring data points by hand from Ps to a spreadsheet is too error prone and too slow, not to mention way too boring. So, to proceed further, I’m going to move to Matlab. I’ll be happy to post my code as I’ve done in the past, but I know that the ability of many of you to follow along at home will be adversely affected. Sorry.

There will be a hiatus in this series while I write some Matlab code and enjoy the holidays with my family. I will fill in with  some things that are less demanding of my time.