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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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Post by Dylan16807 »

50CNT wrote: post #49
welpwelp wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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]) and you're done. 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 tro…

You can skip the square root, too.

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

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Post by penpapersw »

oblio wrote: post #11
taspeotis wrote: post #2

I really liked the landing page, especially the outline of the iPhone with an example of the app running inside of it.

The landing page was really cool. A minor suggestion I have: could the animation be slowed down a bit? I was scanning the page and the cursor moving around was a bit annoying. I think that the way the application works will still be clear if the animation plays at half of its current speed.

I thought it was just the right speed.

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

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Post by SparkyMcUnicorn »

_kush wrote: post #25

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…

I like how you kept the site and dependencies simple. 34.7KB of js (~21 is mostly color definitions), and 4.2KB of css.

Just FYI:

1. You could save ~15.75kb by minifying your JS/CSS (a bit nit-picky since your resources are a fraction of what most sites have)

2. The 1MB background image comes out to 570.6 KB through tinypng.com (47% off!). If lossless is more your thing, you could save about 5% by running it through something like imageoptim.

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

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Post by Zalastax »

floSchr wrote: post #50
Zalastax wrote: post #32

Cool 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/

Super nice! Had I just known about it earlier... We made some different choices, but the end result is quite close. It's a shame that the native html color picker is so bad, I wish I could have used it, but FlexiColorPicker is a delight to work with.
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