October 20, 2005

  • Over on mile23 I wrote up a little thing on L*a*b color in Photoshop. It's one of those things you learn and then wonder how you ever got by doing stuff the old way.

    In other news, I'm going to Tennessee tomorrow. My uncle is performing with his choral group, and my parents have been looking for an excuse to go visit him and the other relatives on that side of the world, and I'd like to see them, too. Ergo, we go.

    At the moment, I'm tired and hungry. I've been craving sugar lately. The only dose which will cure the jonesin' is a Snickers bar, which is a little too much. My diet here has been relatively high in protein, so maybe I'm getting some kind of Atkins-esque effect.

    Word for the day: Beleagured.

    Since I've been here, I read 'Crimes Against Logic,' which is a rant about logic and illogic in the public sphere. It's supposed to innoculate people against sloppy thinking, but it ends up coming off as angry and pedantic. That's the problem with logical rigor: You end up being a buzzkill by revealing the flaws in the work of others.

    I got this book because it seemed to be just like the book project I've had on the back burner for quite a while. I was wondering how I could filter the pedantry of logic and rhetoric into something which seemed more homegrown and... well... compassionate. Maybe one day it'll get written.

    I'm also in the midst of reading another book: 'Animals In Translation,' by Temple Grandin. Grandin is kind of famous for having Asperger's Syndrome and being autistic. But way beyond that, she's an animal behaviorist, with a PhD and everything. 'Animals In Translation' is a lot of different things: It's about animal behavior, it's about autism, and it's about animal intelligence, with comparison to the way autistic consciousness works. And other stuff, too. She makes bold statements, such as that some animals could be viewed as autistic savants, and then backs them up. She turns all kinds of preconceptions upside down, and if you're me, you eat it up.

    And what do you know!? Breszny's got a new book out. I have to go find it.

Comments (4)

  • I've also found that the LAB color space can be used to remove color noise by blurring (or sometimes smart-blurring) the a and b channels.

    I was rather dissapointed to discover that a lot of photoshop functionality disappears when working with 16-color. It even disabled layers! I find that I have to downsample to 8-bit color to get any real color correction work done and as a result, I'm not using the RAW mode on my camera much. (The little bit of extra contrast range is nice, though.)

  • Photoshop can, in fact, do layers and so forth at 16-bit. Maybe you have an old version or something.

    I wish it could do effects layers on channels, as well as layers. But O Well.

  • Actually, Grandin has Autistic Disorder. But she is high-functioning. She had speech delay as a child. If I recall correctly (?), she didn't start talking until she was four.

    Asperger's doesn't have the speech delay. (Though in the high-functioning ranges of Autistic Disorder, there isn't a whole lot of difference between that and Asperger's Syndrome, so...) ::shrug shoulders::

    ~Sophist...

  • In 'Animals in Translation' she talks about something exceptional about her early speech, but I can't recall if it was late speech, or a quick huge vocabulary.

    I don't have the book with me because I literally had no room to pack it for the return trip from Houston. My mom's reading it now.

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