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Color spaces nightmares : gamut clipping, WTF ?

This post is a collective answer to https://discuss.pixls.us/t/color-calibration-test-and-some-thoughts/ and some others on the same topic. What is a color space ? https://darktable-org.github.io/dtdocs/special-topics/color-management/color-spaces/ TL;DR : a color space is a shortcut to represent a light spectrum as a linear combination of 3 reference lights : the primaries. That representation has been chosen because it’s what the 3 types of cone cells of the retina do as well. It means that…