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lswank
Invert hue option.. Can it be brought back?
Nocturne used to have this feature that not only inverted the screen, but it also let you invert the color hues. For those that didn't know about this: Blue colors became orange colors when the screen was inverted, but with the invert hue option everything stayed dark but orange became blue again for example.
Can this feature be implemented again for 10.9?
Please bring this option back - Hue inversion was the reason I'd used this application extensively.
A big +1 here as well. That is exceptionally necessary for this app as I prefer to see colors as they originally were -- or as close to them as possible vs what we presently have.
I hope I'm not hijacking this thread to a different area, but I as well have been in pursuit to bring back the invert hue option. There was some talk of this on the blacktree-nocturne forum here There was some speculation that "hue inversion was relying on a private API that may have changed."
If anybody has any ideas please share!
Yes, I think I'd seen that. That feature was very important to me, so now I don't have real use for this program (yet). I wonder why Apple did not incorporate a similar option.
On Oct 22, 2014, at 5:43, ejwessel [email protected] wrote:
I hope I'm not hijacking this thread to a different area, but I as well have been in pursuit to bring back the invert hue option. There was some talk of this on the blacktree-nocturne forum here https://code.google.com/p/blacktree-nocturne/issues/detail?id=63 There was some speculation that "hue inversion was relying on a private API that may have changed."
If anybody has any ideas please share!
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I've done some research and I believe we might be able to achieve a similar effect with a highly customized ICC display profile. One that inverts the white point and black point and messes with the gamma levels. I have no idea as to how to actually create this profile, and have not found any "ICC profile editing" tool that specialized yet.
Interesting, never thought about that direction. I think I encountered such an editor on the internet a few years ago; so it might be worth a search.
Perhaps one can attempt to edit their default/retina display profile at /Library/ColorSync/Profiles/Displays with the builtin property editor.
:+1: Very good suggestion. It would be an enormous asset for this to have such a feature.
+:100: Hue inversion is the ~~main~~ only real reason to use ~~Nocturne~~ Tranquility. I will pay for this feature.
I just set a $50 on bountysource, because i want my greens to stay $@%&ing green. https://www.bountysource.com/issues/3167101-invert-hue-option-can-it-be-brought-back I recommend others who care about this issue to back it too. Whoever fixes this will deserve it, and it may get it to us ~~sooner~~ at all. (cc @kzsh - if you fix it on the original repo, i'll pay it there)
Hurry, Obi Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope. My computer now feels horribly unfamiliar and hostile.
I spent some time looking into this for Nocturne. I agree with @JCCR that one solution would be a custom ICC profile, though, like him, I don't know how to do that. It's also possible that there's a filter we could use.
@JCCR @kzsh can we figure something out together? Do we know anyone who knows ICC profiles?
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/8374/white-on-black-without-inverting-colors?rq=1
That is a very interesting find there @jbenet. Any luck playing around with these two options?
@ylluminate not yet :( -- i dont have the bandwdith to sink into and figure out how to edit / make ICC profiles.
A filter which does inversion and hue inversion is easy to do, but it cannot be applied to a color profile I think.
I've been watching videos and reading a bit about how ICC profiles work and can be edited. I do have to say they aren't trivial(like the link above this mentions). Given that I'm no color expert and I'm assuming nobody else here is, I was entertaining the idea of purchasing, or better yet using, an ICC profile generator. Though that wouldn't solve the problem of how to get what we want it might be a step closer. Thats all I have for now. I'm going to go back to reading.
http://www.color.org/opensource.xalter
@ejwessel have you found a good ICC generator?
We should find someone who knows ICC profiles well. Anyone have any leads?
I haven't tried any of the open source ones yet. No leads yet either =/ I do plan to start messing around with them this weekend, but we'll see what my schedule allows for =P
I have managed to edit the standard Color LCD profile's tristimulus values with a hex editor. I think we need to understand how to rotate the projective coordinates values so that either lightness is inverted or the hue values are rotated so that inversion inverts it back.
I almost got it right.
I altered the Color LCD profile as I described here https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6674137/ICC%20Modification.pdf.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6674137/ICC-img.jpg
@amitmarkel Thanks for looking into the color profiles. This is great stuff ~~but may I ask as to why you removed the links to your icc profile and document? I was looking forward to trying out your modified profile..~~
I edited the document. The colors' hue values are accurately inverted, but something is wrong with the grays. I suspect that the "Apple display native information > Phosphor values" section might be related somehow. I use the Skype icon for observation.
Oh that's cool. Looking at your screenshot, wow looks like you are getting close.
Here is the profile https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6674137/Invert%20Hue.icc.
Hopefully someone can resolve the remaining little problem with lightness (I assume). Although the problem doesn't seem to be great, it does affect user experience; it makes the OS look like Yosemite.
I have been working on this for three days now. Tomorrow I will have limited time to do this. I hope that this will resolve the issue I mentioned.
@amitmarkel this is a great step forward! thank you
(for others, install profile in /System/Library/ColorSync/Profiles)
I'm getting these.
- Do you need to reboot / reboot apps (didnt think so... should be system-wise)? some colors in browsers remain uninverted (note the Green github "Comment" button). Is this whitepoint related?
- Yep, i also note the grays + lightness problem (not quite smooth enough to be usable, but we're getting there)
just hue
with nocturne
