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Force RGB mode in Mac OS X to fix the picture quality of an external monitor (Original)

Update: I have heard that 10.8.3 has solved this problem for some people, so I rolled back my changes and installed the update. No change on my monitor. Nevertheless, it’d be a good idea to update OS X before trying this, since it may fix the issues with your particular hardware.

I recently bought a MacBook Pro (with ‘Retina’ screen), but when I hooked it up to my Dell U2410 monitor via HDMI cable I was shocked by the poor picture quality. The contrast was all wrong and text was misshapen. No amount of calibration in the monitor or software would fix it.

Short answer: OS X thinks my monitor is a TV, and is using the YCbCr colour space rather than RGB. I had to override an EDID setting to force the RGB colour space, and it is now working correctly.

Long answer: I haven’t owned a Mac for a while and h

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Notes for a presentation by Amelia Bellamy-Royds
SVG Summit, 15 February 2017

I've set up a CodePen as a scratchpad for the live-coding bits. Don't expect anything there to stay there long; fork the pen if you want to save the code & look at it later.

	<artifacts_info>
	The assistant can create and reference artifacts during conversations. Artifacts are for substantial, self-contained content that users might modify or reuse, displayed in a separate UI window for clarity.

	# Good artifacts are...
	- Substantial content (>15 lines)
	- Content that the user is likely to modify, iterate on, or take ownership of
	- Self-contained, complex content that can be understood on its own, without context from the conversation
	- Content intended for eventual use outside the conversation (e.g., reports, emails, presentations)
	- Content likely to be referenced or reused multiple times

	import os
	import glob
	import pandas as pd
	import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET


	def xml_to_csv(path):
	xml_list = []
	for xml_file in glob.glob(path + '/*.xml'):
	tree = ET.parse(xml_file)


	<!DOCTYPE HTML>
	<html>
	<head>
	<title>Pixi Sine Wave</title>
	<style>
	body {
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	background-color: #000000;

	const csvStringToArray = strData =>
	{
	const objPattern = new RegExp(("(\\,\|\\r?\\n\|\\r\|^)(?:\"([^\"](?:\"\"[^\"]))\"\|([^\\,\\r\\n]))"),"gi");
	let arrMatches = null, arrData = [[]];
	while (arrMatches = objPattern.exec(strData)){
	if (arrMatches[1].length && arrMatches[1] !== ",")arrData.push([]);
	arrData[arrData.length - 1].push(arrMatches[2] ?
	arrMatches[2].replace(new RegExp( "\"\"", "g" ), "\"") :
	arrMatches[3]);
	}

	/*
	Relevant packages used:
	-----------------------

	"@babel/core": "^7.0.0-beta.40",
	"@babel/plugin-proposal-class-properties": "^7.0.0-beta.40",
	"@babel/plugin-proposal-object-rest-spread": "^7.0.0-beta.40",
	"@babel/preset-env": "^7.0.0-beta.40",
	"@babel/preset-react": "^7.0.0-beta.40",
	"babel-loader": "^8.0.0-beta.2",

	var page = new WebPage(), testindex = 0, loadInProgress = false;
	var args = require('system').args;
	var host = args[1];
	var username = args[2];
	var password = args[3];
	var pageEditorUrl = args[4];
	var token;
	var system = require('system');
	phantom.cookiesEnabled = true;
	phantom.javascriptEnabled = true;

	var cameraZ = camera.position.z;
	var planeZ = 5;
	var distance = cameraZ - planeZ;
	var aspect = viewWidth / viewHeight;
	var vFov = camera.fov * Math.PI / 180;
	var planeHeightAtDistance = 2 * Math.tan(vFov / 2) * distance;
	var planeWidthAtDistance = planeHeightAtDistance * aspect;

	// or

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