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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 Stratoscope »

heleninboodler wrote: post #64
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/ ;)

I have a handful I'd nominate as "lazy programmer" colors that I think are useful as placeholders but aren't as horrid as #FF00FF etc: blue #aabbdd green #aaddbb purple #bbaadd pink #ddaabb orange #ddbbaa (I usually end up using #bbddaa as well but it's just a different shade of green)

Are they doing names for families of colors?

Yours should be called Yabba Dabba Doo.

Or perhaps Fred Flintstone.

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

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Post by irrational »

dvduval wrote: post #53

I'm still working diligently on counting the grains of sand on the beach closest to me, and hopefully we can pool all of our work together for a final count. As soon as that's done I'll start trying to name all the stars. Colors? I'm tired already.

There are only 5000 stars visible to the human eye. And many already have names. That would be a much easier job than naming 16m colors ;-)

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

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Post by twelvechairs »

lcnmrn wrote: post #89

They should have named 12-bit (4096), 15-bit (32768) and 18-bit (262144) color spaces first then the 24-bit (16.7M) color space. It's easier for humans to manage smaller data sets at first.

More importantly they shouldn't limit themselves to an RGB bound color space

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

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Post by DonHopkins »

phs318u wrote: post #90

OK. Went down the rabbit hole 20 minutes ago and just surfaced. I love simple time-wasters like this. My contributions include: Peppermunt Not quite baby shite Medical attention required Hardware store argument blue Something tells me however that the colour picker that implements this list, while fun, would not be very performant.

There are four distinct competing pukes, a myriad buffet of barfs, and a veritable cornucopia of vomits, but none of them cover what I consider the entire gamut of requisite Ralph colors. There's a reason it's called the "Technicolor Yawn".

https://colornames.org/search/results/?query=puke

https://colornames.org/search/results/?query=barf

https://colornames.org/search/results/?query=vomit

H. Fishlove & Co. "Whoops" Brand Fake Barf has its own distinct set of signature colors, including "perfect puke-yellow" with "Cabernet chunks", easily recognizable by connoisseurs and aficionados of fine fake barf. And artisanal hand-made farm-to-floor fake barf has its own earthy bouquet of organic colors.

https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/the-inside-scoop-o...

>The latex is initially white, but after a day or so, dries into the perfect puke-yellow. “Then, they attach it to a card that says ‘Whoops’ and sell it,” Stan says.

>Of course, now, the original “Whoops” has many gnarly competitors. “One of the better ones is called Glop, made by the famous S. S. Adams joke company.” Others made across the Pacific include Fake Barf and “Oops.”

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

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Post by Stratoscope »

asciimike wrote: post #68
applecrazy wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can change it in your profile settings (though that’s not exactly what you’re asking for). I think there’s a karma threshold, though.

I believe it's 256

I was so happy when I reached that number (or whatever it was) and didn't have to look at the orange bar any more.

For anyone looking for a more tasteful topcolor, try d0c8b5. It's just a darker version of the main HN background color, so it's easy on the eyes.

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

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Post by msclrhd »

eru wrote: post #37
Galanwe wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure that is so simple unfortunately. First, because if I recursively apply your argument, then no color would have a name. Starting from the very 1st lowest color frequency and the 2nd right next to it, no-one could differentiate them. Apply the same logic between the 2nd and the 3rd, the 3rd and the 4th, etc. So you cannot apply this argument to "any" color pair. You would have to define a set of starting color…

You can get out of that argument by saying that colour names apply in different amounts to different hex-colours. So #FF0000 is red. But is #FA0101 is also red, just slightly less so.

That's interesting. So what you have is some sort of similarity metric that is colour based. You could define it as being 1 for an exact match, and 0 for not matching, so cyan, etc. would be 0 red, while orange may be slightly red (e.g. 0.1), and pink may be slightly more red (e.g. 0.25). This would be a 3D function/surface.

This would allow you to model classes of colours, like purples. Shades of a colour could then be any similar colour in the range 0 to 0.5 (or 0.25).

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

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Post by baddox »

eru wrote: post #37
Galanwe wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure that is so simple unfortunately. First, because if I recursively apply your argument, then no color would have a name. Starting from the very 1st lowest color frequency and the 2nd right next to it, no-one could differentiate them. Apply the same logic between the 2nd and the 3rd, the 3rd and the 4th, etc. So you cannot apply this argument to "any" color pair. You would have to define a set of starting color…

You can get out of that argument by saying that colour names apply in different amounts to different hex-colours. So #FF0000 is red. But is #FA0101 is also red, just slightly less so.

Yep, in fact, that’s exactly what those hex codes are: a specification for how much red, how much green, and how much blue is in the color (though our vision and color perception may not map linearly to that specification).
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