I got up at 7am and grabbed breakfast and quickly sat at my desk to start up the videoconference software for the ISO Photography Standards meeting. The opening session began at 13:30 California time, or 07:30 here. It was all administrative stuff and liaison updates from other groups. The most interesting thing for me was a tentative narrowing down of dates for the meeting in October next year, which is now confirmed to be in Cambridge, England (it was still unclear last meeting if it might be in London). It’s pencilled in now for the second last week of October, though we may be more sure by the end of this meeting.
We did get an interesting technical update from the liaison representative from the World Wide Web Consortium. They are working on PNG version 4, which is planned to implement one of our standards, for HDR gain maps. HTML will gain a CSS element to control HDR headroom for controlling rendering of HDR images on displays. This will allow more precise and consistent rendering of HDR images across websites and displays.
The meeting closed for the day after 10:00. I spent the rest of the morning working on slides for a student lesson this afternoon on research for essay writing. And before that class I had one for my science student, today about the moon, including phases, eclipses, and craters.
And after finishing all of that work I quickly worked on a new Darths & Droids strip.
Let me repeat, it being almost relevant: your advice to visit Cambridge on my trip to England a few years back was very good, and is very appreciated.