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+# TColour (TC)
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+## Overview
+A small proof of concept library that allows users to build colour spaces from small reuseable chunks as opposed to creating monolithic config files
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+## Basic Assumptions
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+- That three channel wattages as encodings, decodings, and interstitial states, should be described and characterized in an unambiguous fashion.
+- All colour spaces require at minimum three components:
+    1. Three primaris
+    2. A white point
+    3. A transfer function
+
+ ## What TColour Is Trying To  Avoid
+- Recursion. Including a colourimetric library or references / schema of another colourimetric library or protocol that burdens the NC library with potentially unwanted dependencies.
+- Abstractions. Overly complex conceptual models that prohibit or inhibit clear and direct communication of colourimetric wattage states.
+- Brittleness. Hard-coded or strict implementation models that prohibit or inhibit proper decoding and interpretation of the encoded or assumed colourimetric states.
+
+## Encoding and Decoding Characterization States
+
+Encodings may arrive or be assumed to be in a plethora of states. This might include varying file encodings, variable technical encoding characteristics, and varying colourimetric metadata and information.
+
+To this end, as an introductory schema attempting to gain a solid foundation, a core assumption of an RGB encoding model is assumed for the following rationale:
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+- It is the common language of imagery.
+- It is the most common pre-encoding and post-decoding state.
+- It is the basis of a majority of display encodings and decodings.
+- An RGB encoding has a direct relationship to the ground truth for all colourimetric information via the CIE’s XYZ fundamental relative wattage metric.
+
+It is understood that assumptions of an RGB encoding model, while covering a large number of usage contexts, is ultimately limited. As an introductory approach however, it is a reasonable starting point.
+
+## The RGB Encoding Model
+According to the CIE, [an additive RGB encoding model](https://www.iso.org/standard/37161.html) requires three pieces of metadata to fully describe a colourimetric signal:
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+- A set of three unique primaries, described using a Standard Observer colourimetric model.
+- A description of a centroid, described using a Standard Observer colourimetric model.
+- Transfer characteristics that describe the encoding’s relationship with respect to a tristimulus relative wattage ground truth.
+
+Without these three concrete pieces of information, an RGB encoding is ambiguous, and any and all transforms applied upon the RGB values will be equally ambiguous.
+
+## Metadata Schema Overview
+- Descriptor.
+- Red, Green, and Blue primaries expressed in CIE xy chromaticity coordinates.
+- Achromatic centroid primary expressed in CIE xy chromaticity coordinates.
+- Transfer function expressed in either a sidecar LUT file descriptor, or a selection of communal and strictly defined colourimetric component transfer characteristics (power law, power law with linear section etc.).
+- A high level default CIE colourimetry version, consisting of either the assumed default of 1931 CIE XYZ model, or the more contemporary 2015 CIE XYZ model definition.
+- Alaises that can also be used to identify the colour space
+- An dictionary of other useful information
+
+Full docs will be provided at a later state if and when things are more stable