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Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors

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Re: Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors

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Post by ryanmjacobs »

kylek wrote: post #45

"Blartreuse" ow my sides... They need to have a way to sort by votes, or have a "Best of" or whatever. I was curious (and they provide the data! Thanks!)...so naturally- $ curl -sL https://colornames.org/download/colornames.zip | zcat | sort -nk3 -t, | tail -n10 486d83,Blue Loneliness,0.069 123456,Incremental Blue,0.071 1eeb01,Creeper Aw Man,0.072 336699,MetaFilter Blue,0.077 abcdef,Alphabet Blue,0.078 696969,Nice,0.…

Hey, I independently came up with a similar solution (https://notryan.com/colors) and it renders to HTML.

But ugh... I applaud your simplicity. I used `unzip` instead of zcat, but I guess .zip files normally use GZIP internally. And, I didn't know you could use `sort` for a specific field! So I ended up using a full SQL engine... Learn something new everyday :)

Re: Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors

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Post by bawolff »

ryangittins wrote: post #4

I'm curious—is there a point to giving two separate names to two colors which are indistinguishable from one another to the human eye? There are zero people in the world who can tell #FF4500 from #FF4501, so aren't they effectively the same color?

The entire website is obviously a silly joke. Even if the colours were distinguishable you wouldn't go about naming them in this fashion but in some more systematic fashion

Re: Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors

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Post by qiqitori »

nirui wrote: post #22
picdit wrote: post #3

A few of my favorites so far: Screaming Grey: #AAAAAA It's Still Basically Black: #000001 Nice: #696969 (lol) These would make for some great candidates: https://colors.lol/ ;)

BTW, that "Nice Cyan" (#006969) is actually really nice (at least to me), I can imagine myself building a website/app with that color theme.

BTW, Slashdot is #006666

Re: Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors

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Post by kristiandupont »

baddox wrote: post #9
ryangittins wrote: post #4

I'm curious—is there a point to giving two separate names to two colors which are indistinguishable from one another to the human eye? There are zero people in the world who can tell #FF4500 from #FF4501, so aren't they effectively the same color?

By induction, doesn’t that mean we would only have one color name?

Hah, I love it! There's a lot to dislike about HN and the culture here, but questions like these that sort of make me go "Well obviously not, because ... erm" are quite common and always interesting.

Re: Colornames.org – A collaborative effort to name all 16.7M colors

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Post by Filligree »

baddox wrote: post #56
ryangittins wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem with your argument is that indistinguishable doesn't mean the equal. I'm not saying there is no difference between adjacent colors. I'm saying that the difference is indistinguishable. A lot of indistinguishable differences add to a distinguishable difference. Think about it with numbers: if your sequence A, B, C... are each zero units apart, then yes, A = B = C = ... In actuality, though, they are not ze…

Any two adjacent colors must either have the same name or different names.

This assumes a color must have only one name. Why not two, or more?
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