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# Anaglyph HALD Generator (Anahald) - Notes on Glossary

By Oleg Kosyakovsky

## Terminology used by documentation

- the author uses interchangeably the terms "folder" and "directory"; the former is misleading but widely known , the latter is technically correct but for some reason "obstructed" from the common users
- the author uses interchangeably the terms "Tcl shell" and "Tcl interpreter"
- the author uses interchangeably the terms "command-shell* and "shell*; these refer to CMD or BASH
- "LUT" means lookup table, "CLUT" means color lookup table; the author uses these two terms and terms "HALD", "HALD-LUT", "HALD-CLUT" interchangeably
- "Identity-HALD" standardly means a HALD-CLUT that maps each color to itself
- the author refers to a HALD-CLUT made by Anaglyph HALD Generator as "balanced HALD"
- the author uses interchangeably the terms "configuration file", "config file", and "config"
- the author uses interchangeably the terms "anaglyph" and "red-cyan anaglyph"
- "balancing" a color means replacing it with some related anaglyph-friendly color obtained by reducing the difference between red channel on one side, and green and blue channels on the other side
- sides-ratio is a ratio between values of red channel, and maximum of green and blue channels - the larger divided by the smaller; used as a measure of disbalance in colors

Oleg Kosyakovsky

Haifa, Israel

2024-2025