Without searching, let me guess: charlyw64?
He is the guy who, whenever a new darktable version is up in the DPReview news, says it’s unusable and best avoided – and still, he comes back every time and spews hatred and lies. @stevie : yes, ignore him, really.
But this topic is mainly about ART, so:
Surprise, surprise, ART also has a scene-referred workflow. Maybe charlyw64 is wrong?
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(quoting @lphilpot)
Yes, darktable has a linear / scene-referred workflow.
So has ART, fwiw. If you didn’t notice, it’s because of the “what” Vs “how” I mentioned above. (ART vs Rawtherapee - #17 by agriggio) -
CLF LUTs are […] well suited to be applied in a scene-referred workflow, e.g. to implement “look transforms” or also “output transforms” (i.e. tone mapping operations from scene to display/output) (ART and OpenColorIO - #14 by agriggio)
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a clear separation between tools operating in “scene referred” space and tools operating in “display referred” space, similarly to what is happening e.g. with darktable (ART (the software) news - #235 by agriggio)
And, if I understand correctly, so has RT, or at least the features are rather similar (@jdc , please correct me if I misunderstood your references):
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innovations in DT (scene refere, Sigmoid, new color science,…) are hotly debated on the forums and that similar processes on RT (Ciecam, Sigmoid, Munsell correction, Auto WB…) are currently in the shadows(Devs - How Hard Would It Be To............? - #29 by jdc)
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I also revised the GUI to make it more consistent, notably by including Sigmoid and Log encoding in Cam16 image adjustments. […] Note that the notions of “scene conditions (reference)” and “viewing conditions (display)” have been present in RT for more than 12 years. Local adjustments - Cam16 and Log encoding improvments)