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?
Are the palettes accurate? Did you try a Google image search?
Google, but for colors
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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.
If that's what it's doing, how is it giving me colors for nonsense words?
I wonder if it's just automatically accepting the spelling suggestion Google provides for searches?
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#63Any idea on how they obtain the underlying images? It seems like a huge pre-trained database.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
If that's what it's doing, how is it giving me colors for nonsense words? I wonder if it's just automatically accepting the spelling suggestion Google provides for searches?
It's probably using Google custom search. I think that's the only way you can actually get Google search results as an API.
Perhaps custom search displays differing results?
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#66Loved 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.
Meh indeed.
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#68I typed in "Trump News" and I got a bunch of Fake Colors, none of which were anything like the correct shade of orange. They're shadow banning orange colors and right wing red colors, only showing dark left wing blue shades!!! Why are they censoring all the warm positive Trump colors??? All colors matter!!!
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#69Very interesting how "pride" returns the colors of the rainbow in order: https://picular.co/pride It might be ordering the results by hue.
Also quite vivid:
https://picular.co/neon
Not so vivid: https://picular.co/noir
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#70Neat! 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
I found some nice greens: https://picular.co/marijuana -- Have a MERRY CHRISTMAS! (There, I said it.)