June 1999
Intermediate to advanced
340 pages
10h 10m
English
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References
In this section I list some of the books, web pages, and other references relevant to each chapter.
Chapter 1
Portable Network Graphics (PNG) home site
Roelofs, Greg,
http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/. This site includes the PNG specification (all versions), the PNG extensions document, sample images, historical information, an extensive list of known PNG-supporting plications, programming information (including a link to the demonstration source code presented in Part III), and even a VRML97 test world.
“Not Just Decoration: Quality Graphics for the Web”
Lilley, Chris, http://www.w3.org/Conferences/WWW4/Papers/53/gq-boston.html. In particular, see the sections on “Anti-aliasing and Transparency” (http://www.w3.org/Conferences/WWW4/Papers/53/gq-trans.html), “Gamma Correction” (http://www.w3.org/Conferences/WWW4/Papers/53/gq-gamma.html/), “Colour Display” (http://www.w3.org/Conferences/WWW4/Papers/53/gq-gamut.html/).
“PNG and Gamma”
Lilley, Chris, http://www.w3.org/Graphics/PNG/platform.html.
“PNG and Chromaticity”
Lilley, Chris, http://www.w3.org/Graphics/PNG/platform2.html.
“PNG and Color Management”
Lilley, Chris, http://www.w3.org/Graphics/PNG/platform3.html.
International Color Consortium home page
http://www.color.org/. The ICC is responsible for the standard “device profile” format that allows one to describe the characteristics of display devices very precisely.
sRGB web site
Hewlett-Packard Company, http://www.sRGB.com/.
IEC Technical Committee 100 ...
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