Hi everyone,
I have been working on making a renderer ACES color-managed and had this working with ACES 1.0.3. I started with a simple case,
supporting only sRGB output, and validated the results using reference images, which achieved a really close match. I generated my transforms using ociobakelut with the log2 48 nits shaper, setting a resolution of 64 for the cube LUT and 4096 for the 1D shaper LUT.
ociobakelut --iconfig aces_1.0.3/config.ocio -v --inputspace "ACES - ACEScg" --outputspace "Output - sRGB" --description "ACES 1.0.3 Output - ACEScg to sRGB" --shaperspace "Utility - Log2 48 nits Shaper - AP1" --shapersize 4096 --cubesize 64 --format cinespace "ACEScg-to-sRGB-log2-48nits-v1.0.3.csp"
Since the cinespace file format specifies the input range and the values that map to it, I first ensured that the input range was linear so it could be sampled as a texture. To do this, I used a small Python script:
from scipy import interpolate
from scipy.interpolate import InterpolatedUnivariateSpline
import numpy as np
linSteps = np.linspace(smallestInput, largestInput, 4096)
spl = InterpolatedUnivariateSpline(inputSteps, outputSteps)
lutValues = spl(linSteps)
By dividing the ACEScg values that go into this shaper LUT by the maximum value, I can sample the LUT in a 0-1 range. The results were quite close (I didn’t expect a perfect match since I am using look-up-tables for the transformations).
reference image:
ours:
Then I wanted to support Display P3, a format with D65 as the reference illuminant that uses the same transfer function as sRGB. Some transforms for this were still missing in ACES 1.0.3, so I upgraded to ACES 1.2. From the knowledge base on this website, I found that the OCIO Configs for ACES version 1.2 should be obtained from the colour-science/OpenColorIO-Configs repository. I also read that in ACES 1.1, changes were made to the log2 48 nits shaper function to reduce the error in over-saturated images, including altering the range of the shaper from [-6.5, 6.5] stops (max 16.29174) to [-7.25, 10.27] stops (max 222.860992). However, when generating a LUT with this new shaper, the results looked completely off. To investigate this I tried validating sRGB output again using ACES 1.2 with the new shaper.
ociobakelut --iconfig aces_1.2/config.ocio -v --inputspace "ACES - ACEScg" --outputspace "Output - sRGB" --description "ACES 1.2 Output - ACEScg to sRGB" --shaperspace "Utility - Log2 48 nits Shaper - AP1" --shapersize 4096 --cubesize 64 --format cinespace "ACEScg-to-sRGB-log2-48nits-v1.2.csp"
I was surprised that the range increased so significantly; it’s even higher than Rec.2020 with a PQ 1000 nits shaper, since the latter reaches a maximum value of 184.320023. This implies that Rec.2020 with a PQ 1000 nits shaper clips colors more quickly than sRGB with a log2 48 nits shaper.
Are these results to be expected, could this be a bug, or is there anything I’m missing? I would be very grateful if someone could point me in the right direction with this issue.
References:
https://community.acescentral.com/t/aces-1-1-discussion-tell-us-what-you-think/