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Re: Google, but for colors

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Post by rainbowmverse » Wed, Aug 29, 2018, 11:17 PM UTC

I put in bisexual. It returned those colors, but also returned the colors for the pansexual pride flag. https://picular.co/bisexual

I wonder what kind of magic is going on under the hood.

Re: Google, but for colors

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Post by kasey_junk » Wed, Aug 29, 2018, 11:19 PM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #45

You can type nonsense words into this --- words for which Google will say no page in its entire corpus has a match --- and get color palettes back. What's it actually doing?

Machine learning

Re: Google, but for colors

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Post by J5892 » Wed, Aug 29, 2018, 11:27 PM UTC

I like how the first result for black is #040404.

Re: Google, but for colors

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Post by Ekuju » Wed, Aug 29, 2018, 11:29 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

Considering this apparently uses Google images, it would probably be improved if you add "_ color" to the end of every search.

For christmas this seems to be the case.

Re: Google, but for colors

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Post by miguelmota » Wed, Aug 29, 2018, 11:36 PM UTC

I put in "macbook" and it didn't return gray or black. Think the machine learning needs some tweaking

Re: Google, but for colors

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Post by chrbarrol » Wed, Aug 29, 2018, 11:39 PM UTC

kasey_junk wrote: post #52

tptacek wrote: post #45

You can type nonsense words into this --- words for which Google will say no page in its entire corpus has a match --- and get color palettes back. What's it actually doing?

Machine learning

I was kinda disappointed when I realized when you search it seems to basically only do a simple image search (ala Google) and return the primary color of the individual images, as can be seen by hovering over the small icon in each color result.

I would not really call that machine learning, since it's basically an image search engine with a color filter.

Re: Google, but for colors

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Post by fbelzile » Wed, Aug 29, 2018, 11:43 PM UTC

Very interesting how "pride" returns the colors of the rainbow in order: https://picular.co/pride

It might be ordering the results by hue.

Re: Google, but for colors

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Post by ISL » Wed, Aug 29, 2018, 11:44 PM UTC

cozzyd wrote: post #31

Searching for quarks or gluons did not result in colorless combinations. This website clearly doesn't conform to QCD.

Neither quarks nor gluons (in general) are colorless.

One should object, however, that the site returns colors for 'hadron' and 'meson' :).

Re: Google, but for colors

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Post by nyrulez » Wed, Aug 29, 2018, 11:46 PM UTC

No offense, but I expected more orange: https://picular.co/trump

Re: Google, but for colors

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Post by jameslk » Wed, Aug 29, 2018, 11:54 PM UTC

Apparently the colors come from the images in Google Images search results.

In the bottom right of each color is a button that reveals the image where the color is sourced from.