👨🏻 Nader Sadoughi


Translating Albers to CAM16: a Case for Next Generation Color Pickers presented at AIC2024 Midterm Meeting in São Paulo, Brazil
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 Presentation figuresAbstractThe universally taught art-educational material Interaction of Color by Josef Albers is used to form a case-study proposing CAM16 as an alternative to the commonly used HSB & HSL pickers (endemic in most graphics software). For vibrating and vanishing boundaries, Albers states colors must be equally light but from differing hues, a task impossible to execute in HSB & HSL. Albers’ terminology is catalogued, identifying synonymous CIE definitions that quantify lightness. Albers’ examples of vibrating and vanishing boundaries validates the translation. CAM16 shows the ability to create vibrating and vanishing boundaries without manual color picking. Until CAM16 tools are introduced, the author encourages educators to address the confusion HSB & HSL pose.


Paper AcknowledgementsI would like to sincerely thank Luanne Stovall & Dr. Carma Gorman for steadfastly supporting my academic endeavors; the conservation team at the Harry Ransom Center, especially Andrea Knowlton, Heather Hamilton, Rachel Mochon, and Diana Diaz; Jean Hoskin for offering perspective; Mahta Ghotbi for troubleshooting the data exporting in Python; Alisha Campbell for her feedback on t-tests; and Anahita Penton for her help in editing.

Presentation Acknowledgements
The opportunity to share this knowledge would not have been possible without the AIC, the generosity of the  COFA Professional Development Travel Fund, and my family. I would like to again thank Jean Hoskin for her feedback on the paper which informed the presentation; Brandon Scott Roye for his feedback on how to bring this abstract topic to life; and my professor Keila Pérez Quiñones and peers in my Independent Design Projects course for their clear and constructive feedback on key improvements to implement.


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