Google, but for colors

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Post by dcschelt » Wed, Aug 29, 2018, 3:59 PM UTC

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#2

Post by splatzone » Wed, Aug 29, 2018, 6:54 PM UTC

This is really cool, nice work!

I tried 'horse' (https://picular.co/horse) and I got some interesting results, some sky and grassy colours as well. Where do you get the photos from, and will searches give the same results every time or do they vary?

Re: Google, but for colors

#3

Post by 21 » Wed, Aug 29, 2018, 7:15 PM UTC

It seems to return blue for pretty much anything ("cat", "man"), maybe because of blue sky?

Re: Google, but for colors

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Post by rileyteige » Wed, Aug 29, 2018, 7:17 PM UTC

https://picular.co/love returned a nice color palette

pretty neat to search for the planets as well (e.g. https://picular.co/jupiter)

I also like that the favicon changes colors. Nice touch.

Re: Google, but for colors

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Post by suyash » Wed, Aug 29, 2018, 7:17 PM UTC

Loved the idea and well implemented. Is it open source, like to add a feature to it. Could you also care to share about the underlying algorithm ?

Re: Google, but for colors

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Post by afo » Wed, Aug 29, 2018, 7:19 PM UTC

rileyteige wrote: post #4

https://picular.co/love returned a nice color palette pretty neat to search for the planets as well (e.g. https://picular.co/jupiter ) I also like that the favicon changes colors. Nice touch.

Looks similar to https://picular.co/hate

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Post by tomcam » Wed, Aug 29, 2018, 7:22 PM UTC

Neat! No greens returned in https://picular.co/christmas but OTOH I just created palettes called Retro and Grunge for a recent project and they were quite similar to Picular’s choices

Re: Google, but for colors

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Post by teolandon » Wed, Aug 29, 2018, 7:22 PM UTC

suyash wrote: post #5

Loved the idea and well implemented. Is it open source, like to add a feature to it. Could you also care to share about the underlying algorithm ?

Seems to be doing a google image search and take the average color. Meh.

EDIT: My "meh" is not bashing on the author or anything, at least they actually made a project, all I've done this past while is browse HN and make half-baked terminal apps. It was more of a let-down because I thought this was a very cool idea and was interested in a sophisticated implementation of it.

Re: Google, but for colors

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Post by suyash » Wed, Aug 29, 2018, 7:23 PM UTC

teolandon wrote: post #8

suyash wrote: post #5

Loved the idea and well implemented. Is it open source, like to add a feature to it. Could you also care to share about the underlying algorithm ?

Seems to be doing a google image search and take the average color. Meh. EDIT: My "meh" is not bashing on the author or anything, at least they actually made a project, all I've done this past while is browse HN and make half-baked terminal apps. It was more of a let-down because I thought this was a very cool idea and was interested in a sophisticated implementation of it.

Ahh much simpler than I thought (fancy NLP and such :)

Re: Google, but for colors

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Post by rileyteige » Wed, Aug 29, 2018, 7:25 PM UTC

tomcam wrote: post #7

Neat! No greens returned in https://picular.co/christmas but OTOH I just created palettes called Retro and Grunge for a recent project and they were quite similar to Picular’s choices

https://picular.co/12+days+of+Christmas gets a couple greens