Quote:
"The science of gamma-correction has little or nothing to do with art. It has everything to do with what a renderer does: uses linear data to process colours.

That's it.

Why is no one listening to that? Why all the hubbub, anyway? If you feed a sausage-maker eggs when it expects meat, you're going to get something like sausages, but not really. If you feed a render process sRGB data when it expects linear data...

There's no point to continue. No wonder BB started to lose his cool.

Art is art. Rendering is something software does. One is not the other."

Absolutely right.
Which is why statements from leading GC adherents such as "if you don't use GC all you'll produce is crap" are so misleading and unhelpful. Given the context in which they've been made the message comes across as: "if you don't use this mathematical technique when rendering then you can only produce crap artwork.

I fear it's the technical bods themselves that have blurred the lines and confused matters, and then they get upset because the distinction between art and rendering appears not to be clear to everyone.

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