Great app! Very small critique: at a quick glance to my home screen, the icon looks like an app in the download/install process.
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
#42Hi, 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…
I'm color bind too. I'm actually jealous I didn't think of this. I have been working in Krita lately, and I'm guessing on colors. Krita will give hexadecimal # of a particuliar color, but not a worded description of the color.
This has so many potential uses--fashion websites for one. I can't go by the color on websites for the clothing; I need to look at the details for the written color. I usually just buy black, and people call me Jonny Cash. A therapist once asked me why I always wear black. Just too dissalusioned on so many levels to tell why. That was my last session.
I imagine sites like The Gap would pay for a custom app incorporated into their site?
Will I pay for this app? Maybe? It will be my first bought app. All these years, and I never gave Apple my CC, on principle. They might get it today though.
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#43Nice idea! I just can't figure out why is the size of app almost 30MB?
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#44There's a PWA that does mostly the same, apart for the naming: https://use-the-platform.com/rainbow-explorer/
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#45Congratulations, looks very useful.
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#46Nice idea! I just can't figure out why is the size of app almost 30MB?
Probably libs.
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#47You're underselling this hugely! $0.99 is far too cheap
Re: Show HN: My first native iOS app – Cone, a real time color picker
#48You're underselling this hugely! $0.99 is far too cheap
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
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!
You've got like 3 features, and a list of names with values for each one of those features. You could literally do
_, result = min([(sqrt((i.R - c.R)^2 + (i.G - c.R)^2 + (i.B - c.B)^2), c) for c in colors])
Why would you want a computer to come up with color names anyway? They're identifiers, so you want them to be consistent. What if it comes up with names like Piss or Ennui? Why go through that trouble?
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#50Cool indeed! I had a similar need and created https://github.com/Zalastax/colornamer . Finding a good source of names was the hardest part so you might want to complement your list of colors with those in my list.
I've made almost the same thing :)
https://colorna.me/