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Show HN: Colormind – Color schemes via Generative Adversarial Networks

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Re: Show HN: Colormind – Color schemes via Generative Adversarial Networks

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Would be super cool if you could pick your own ground truth data. Or predefined sets.

The torch7 models need to be loaded in memory, which is the main bottle neck. I've got about 30 or so trained models on disk and they take turns on the homepage.

Maybe there's a better way to do this that I'm not aware of though (Floydhub?)

Re: Show HN: Colormind – Color schemes via Generative Adversarial Networks

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If you take into account various forms of colourblindness, could this be used to create colourblind friendly palettes that are still easy on the eye for everyone?

yeah definitely, it would just have to train on a (relatively large) sample of such palettes. I'll look into it!

Re: Show HN: Colormind – Color schemes via Generative Adversarial Networks

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post #5

If you take into account various forms of colourblindness, could this be used to create colourblind friendly palettes that are still easy on the eye for everyone?

yeah definitely, it would just have to train on a (relatively large) sample of such palettes. I'll look into it!

I have protanomaly myself, so you'd definitely be making my day!

Look up "cubehelix" if you haven't heard of it already, it might give some inspirations.

Re: Show HN: Colormind – Color schemes via Generative Adversarial Networks

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Can you get a suggested color palette by API call?

sure, you could just use the same API the main website does, it's unauthenticated:

  curl 'http://colormind.io/api/' --data-binary '{"model":"default"}'

  curl 'http://colormind.io/api/' --data-binary '{"input":[[44,43,44],[90,83,82],"N","N","N"],"model":"default"}'
keep in mind this is hosted on a single Linode 4096, and there's no SLA or anything :] It's handling the HN spike pretty well so far though.

also the models are rotated daily (ie. different ones are available each day), with the exception of "default"

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