apca-introduction

The missing introduction to APCA  https://p.ce9e.org/apca-introduction/
git clone https://git.ce9e.org/apca-introduction.git

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Author
Tobias Bengfort <tobias.bengfort@posteo.de>
Date
2022-08-05 11:55
typo: reasonable flare is 0.0025, not 0.025

see https://github.com/xi/apca-introduction/issues/1#issuecomment-1197997302

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M plots/lightness_comparison.png 0
M plots/lightness_comparison.py 3 +--

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diff --git a/analysis.md b/analysis.md

@@ -325,11 +325,9 @@ I plotted curves for both the Weber-Fechner model (log) and the Stevens model
  325   325 (pow) with different parameters.
  326   326 
  327   327 -   The log curve with a flare of 0.05 (WCAG 2) is closer to the pow curve with
  328    -1     an exponent of 1/3
   -1   328     an exponent of 1/3 and a flare of 0.0025
  329   329 -   The log curve with a flare of 0.4 is closer to the pow curves with
  330   330     exponents 0.56 and 0.68 (similar to APCA)
  331    -1 -   The pow curve with an exponent of 1/3 **and** a flare of 0.025 is somewhere
  332    -1     in the middle.
  333   331 
  334   332 This shows that a big part of the different results between WCAG 2.x and APCA
  335   333 are caused by a different choice in parameters. If we were to change the flare

diff --git a/plots/lightness_comparison.png b/plots/lightness_comparison.png

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diff --git a/plots/lightness_comparison.py b/plots/lightness_comparison.py

@@ -23,8 +23,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
   23    23 
   24    24 	weber(0.05)
   25    25 	weber(0.4)
   26    -1 	stevens(0, 0.333)
   27    -1 	stevens(0.025, 0.333)
   -1    26 	stevens(0.0025, 0.333)
   28    27 	stevens(0, 0.56)
   29    28 	stevens(0, 0.68)
   30    29