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Gamma
More precisely - this is a “gamma encoding” that is originally used to correct for the old-school CRT-type monitors' x2.2
voltage correction.
Gamma encoding is calculated as a power function, where each pixel's L
component (in HSL color space) is corrected.
For now we are using a simplified single-curve method which will eventually be replaced with a more sophisticated multi-point curve that would allow a user to specify a curve using up to N
knee points (at which point it will no longer be proper to call this “gamma” but rather something else).
Implementation-wise there's nothing special about this (assuming L
is in range [0..1]
and _gamma
is ≥1
):
// pseudo-code void gamma(/*array of pixels*/image, double _gamma){ for(const & pixel: image){ pixel.luma = power(pixel.luma, _gamma); } }