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Show HN: My first native iOS app – Cone, a real time color picker

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Re: Show HN: My first native iOS app – Cone, a real time color picker

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What a great idea. I am renovating my house right now and I have to buy some paint for partially painting a facade. I could use such an app to be able to choose the paint color, in the store, as close as possible to the original one.

Do you know of any such app for Android?

Re: Show HN: My first native iOS app – Cone, a real time color picker

#4
Looks cool. I wanted to build something similar some time ago, but never got to it. My idea was that it would serve colorblind people so that they can check what color some things are.

Interesting color names data can be downloaded here: https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/

Re: Show HN: My first native iOS app – Cone, a real time color picker

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What a great idea. I am renovating my house right now and I have to buy some paint for partially painting a facade. I could use such an app to be able to choose the paint color, in the store, as close as possible to the original one. Do you know of any such app for Android?

Beware the effects of incident lighting on colour perception. As a human, you do a lot of processing you're not even aware of to normalise the colours you perceive. Cameras cannot do this (without calibration), so if the incandescent/flourescent/daylight/sunlight mix and intensity is different in the store to your house, you could end up with a very different shade.
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