1997 JUL 31
A&T NWGC
ART & TECHNOLOGY
"At the very least, your monitor should be able to display
a full range of tones..."
MONITOR CALIBRATION
What is it? Simply, it means your monitor brightness and contrast
controls are adjusted properly. That's properly, like, it
doesn't melt your eyes when viewed for more than fifteen minutes,
and, it displays a full range of grayscale tones.
It gets quite a bit more complex for digital artists, or for anyone
with need to match tone and color on a monitor for output by a print
device, but that is a subject for another day. At the very least,
your monitor should be able to display a full range of tones, and
this is very simple for anyone to do.
Below is the A&T New World Grayscale Calibrator. This
table evenly divides the entire tonal range between white and black.
There are fifteen shades of gray, plus white and black. You should
be able to clearly identify each of the fifteen shades. If so,
congratulations, you're calibrated. If not, you might try adjusting
brightness and contrast controls until you have the best display
possible for your monitor.
"The beauty of tables is that they give us a fair bit of
control over formatting and background color..."
TABLE TALK
HTML tables -- they're widely supported, all recent browsers I
am aware of, and they are easy to use. Here is the code used
to create each of the grayscale bars in the A&T New World
Grayscale Calibrator:
<TABLE width="90%">
<TR>
<TD bgcolor=#C0C0C0>
<FONT color=#0000FF size=1>
<CODE>#C0C0C0</CODE>
</FONT>
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
That's it. This code creates a table 90% of the width of the screen
(or the frame in this case) with a light gray background and text
"#C0C0C0" at left. Additional coding provides more control
over text color, size, and style. Very straight forward.
The beauty of tables is that they give us a fair bit of control
over formatting and background color, above and beyond the global
formatting for the whole page, and they're bandwidth friendly
in that they don't require repeated loading and transmission of
high-bandwidth graphics.
Tables can do much more for your Web pages. You are invited to visit
the sites linked below to learn more about this subject.
W3C Home
www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/MarkUp.html
The mother of all HTML references. An overview of all HTML
related materials at W3C including current and proposed
specifications.
Sandia National Laboratories
www.sandia.gov/sci_compute/elements.html#TABLE
HTML Reference Manual: HTML Elements List: TABLE. A large
document with numerous links to more large documents. Good
information.
Netscape Tables
home.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/tables.html
Tables as Implemented in Netscape v.1.1. A lucid and
immediately helpful explanation of tables including examples.
This is good reading.
Would you like to see your work in Zn?
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