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Is there a story behind the name? It's a cool name, but it doesn't seem obvious at first glance. (Edit: cone cells! of course! cheers :) )
Since this app helps me see all the colors, I decided to name it Cone!
Hi, HN! Really excited to share my little project here. Being a colorblind designer, it was often hard for me to figure the color names and decide which colors to use. Hence, I decided to make this app. Cone lets you pick colors in real time using the phone's camera. It lets you build color palettes while on the run, capturing and recording color for later comment/discussion, sending the colors to someone else quickl…
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Why RNN? I would probably settle for a nearest neighbour in Lab color space.
Because I'm no data scientist but I somewhat understand that a RNN can extrapolate a training set. Nearest neighbors are cool too!
for something like a meaningful name for a colour requires far more learning, data and context than is reasonable...
Is there anything to covert hex codes to paint colors? Live, real word paint on the wall. That would be neat. I haven't looked at a paint can in a while, maybe it's as simple as rgb?
There are multiple standards for this. - RAL – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAL_colour_standard - Pantone – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantone - some others, often with military roots (FS595, British Standard, …) Pantone has different charts for paper/textile prints etc. RAL is mostly used for paint. It's common to have RAL codes on spray cans or wall paint buckets here in Europe. There are tools to approximately…
good luck charging for it though... if there is not a free one, some free-app loving developer might waste a couple of hours of his afternoon doing the same and shipping it for free.
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?
If I wanted to do this, I'd try something like the Color Muse [1]. It's a $60 Bluetooth peripheral that proports to do accurate color scanning. Then an app on your phone tells you the specific paint that corosponds to the scanned color.
I haven't used it personally and can't vouch for it's performance, but I wouldn't trust phone camera alone and wouldn't spend $1k+ on a pro model, so I figure it's worth a shot
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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There are multiple standards for this. - RAL – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAL_colour_standard - Pantone – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantone - some others, often with military roots (FS595, British Standard, …) Pantone has different charts for paper/textile prints etc. RAL is mostly used for paint. It's common to have RAL codes on spray cans or wall paint buckets here in Europe. There are tools to approximately…
iirc pantone charge you an arm and a leg to use their colours...