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Re: Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks

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Post by molf »

S0und wrote: post #10

As an "expert viewer" of Baumgartner Restoration, this site usefulness is questionable. If you look at those color palettes, most of them brownish that is because of dirty & old oxidised varnish. These are not the intended look of these paintings. So these color palettes has nothing to do with those 3000 masters. https://youtube.com/@baumgartnerrestoration

Agreed. I absolutely adore the idea of it! But all the brownish colours tell the same story.

For some additional context; many old pigments were not stable at all.

https://www.vangoghstudio.com/what-were-the-original-colors-...

Re: Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks

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Post by ouli »

S0und wrote: post #10

As an "expert viewer" of Baumgartner Restoration, this site usefulness is questionable. If you look at those color palettes, most of them brownish that is because of dirty & old oxidised varnish. These are not the intended look of these paintings. So these color palettes has nothing to do with those 3000 masters. https://youtube.com/@baumgartnerrestoration

This is a very interesting perspective. I'd thought the muted, brownish colors in these paintings had to do with the quality and availability of pigments during that period.

Re: Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks

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Post by nekooooo »

ouli wrote: post #12
S0und wrote: post #10

As an "expert viewer" of Baumgartner Restoration, this site usefulness is questionable. If you look at those color palettes, most of them brownish that is because of dirty & old oxidised varnish. These are not the intended look of these paintings. So these color palettes has nothing to do with those 3000 masters. https://youtube.com/@baumgartnerrestoration

This is a very interesting perspective. I'd thought the muted, brownish colors in these paintings had to do with the quality and availability of pigments during that period.

hundreds of years of oxidation will make everything brown.

Re: Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks

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Post by oybng »

ouli wrote: post #8
oybng wrote: post #7

Very nice. My only gripe is the automatic page switching on scroll, never encountered that before and I absolutely hate it

Thank you for the kind words and insightful feedback. My intention with page-switching on scroll was to offer more color palettes without requiring extra clicks. I had some reservations about it too, but couldn't find a better way to provide a continuous feed of similar palettes. I'll work on improving that feature.

It's very convenient, I wish I could offer a worthy suggestion. The trouble in my case is that it's very sensitive and the palettes are barely in view before the page refreshes, they don't reach the center of the screen. Thanks for sharing

Re: Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks

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Post by Theodores »

I am currently looking for colour palettes and this website is of interest to me.

Small snag, some UTF8 things are going on with some colour names, I am sure you know and have cursed accordingly.

I like OKLCH colours and the ability to mix them in interesting ways using CSS things. This means I don't do hex codes for colours in CSS. I can translate though, however, soon some people will demand OKLCH, so you might as well add it in, trying to get it natural with the picker.

I appreciate the masters but I wonder how this would work using other sources, for example, Sunday newspaper supplements from the last century, and their glossy adverts, which were to a higher standard than what we get today.

Re: Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks

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Post by hparadiz »

I used to run an art social network 15 years ago that did this automatically with every piece of art uploaded and then it let you search for art by color that way.

Basically

$average = new Imagick( $file );

$average->quantizeImage( $numColors, Imagick::COLORSPACE_RGB, 0, false, false ); //Reduce the amount of colors to 10

$average->uniqueImageColors(); //Only save one pixel of each color

Re: Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks

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Post by CSSer »

ouli wrote: post #8
oybng wrote: post #7

Very nice. My only gripe is the automatic page switching on scroll, never encountered that before and I absolutely hate it

Thank you for the kind words and insightful feedback. My intention with page-switching on scroll was to offer more color palettes without requiring extra clicks. I had some reservations about it too, but couldn't find a better way to provide a continuous feed of similar palettes. I'll work on improving that feature.

The problem, from a UX standpoint, is that you need a visual affordance for the behavior. That is, you must indicate that it's about to happen and give the user the opportunity to abort. Alternatively, a continuous gallery could suffice.

Re: Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks

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Post by mbivert »

ouli wrote: post #12
S0und wrote: post #10

As an "expert viewer" of Baumgartner Restoration, this site usefulness is questionable. If you look at those color palettes, most of them brownish that is because of dirty & old oxidised varnish. These are not the intended look of these paintings. So these color palettes has nothing to do with those 3000 masters. https://youtube.com/@baumgartnerrestoration

This is a very interesting perspective. I'd thought the muted, brownish colors in these paintings had to do with the quality and availability of pigments during that period.

There's most likely multiple aspects at play: high-chroma pigments were historically limited and/or expensive; varnish yellowed over time; pigments faded. The digitization process probably wasn't perfect as well (I'd expect modern scans should be fairly good though).
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